Thatcher concerned over 1989 report

Margaret Thatcher voiced concern that a 1989 report into the Hillsborough disaster constituted a “devastating criticism” of police, previously-unpublished Cabinet papers revealed today.

The comment came in a handwritten note by the then-prime minister in the margin of a civil servant’s memo informing her that Home Secretary Douglas Hurd planned to welcome the broad thrust of Lord Taylor’s interim report on its publication in August 1989.