MPs put politics aside to demand the government release its nuked blood files and finally award a medal to nuclear test veterans
Tory and Labour MPs launched a joint attack on the government yesterday, demanding that nuclear test veterans’ blood records be released and there be an immediate medal awarded.
Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab promised to investigate the evidence of veterans having their medical information withheld, and said officials had been asked again to look at a medal.
It came after a week of revelations in which the veterans were intimidated by armed police at the Ministry of Defence, the Mirror revealed blood samples were being illegally withheld by the Atomic Weapons Establishment, and test veterans were applauded as they marched at the Cenotaph.
Salford MP Rebecca Long-Bailey told deputy PM Dominic Raab when he stood in at Prime Minister’s Questions that a 1958 Air Ministry order made it routine for blood to be taken from servicemen at the tests.