Withdraw Hillsborough law amendment, urge Liverpool and Manchester mayors

Draft creates ‘too broad an opt-out’ for intelligence chiefs to decide what information is released after major incident

The mayors of Liverpool and Manchester have said an amendment to the Hillsborough law should be withdrawn, saying it does not do enough to prevent future cover-ups.

The Liverpool city region mayor, Steve Rotheram, and the Greater Manchester mayor, Andy Burnham, said the amendment “creates too broad an opt-out” by allowing intelligence officials to decide what information is released to investigators after a major incident.