Merseyside nuclear test veterans met up with Prime Minister Boris Johnson for the first time in history.
Victims of the Cold War radiation experiments told the PM about early deaths, government cover-ups, and hereditary illness, the Mirror reports. It comes as part of a campaign in which veterans were refused a medal three times on the grounds there was no "risk and rigour" to the testing programme.
The meeting was organised after Rebecca Long-Bailey, Labour MP for Salford and Eccles, asked the PM to meet her and the veterans. The PM told the Mirror: "Thank you for bringing this to my attention. Everybody I've heard from, thank you for your testimony. It's especially heart-rending to listen to what you have to say."
