Former Home Secretary was praised by families for helping to relaunch inquiries - but said she was initially taken in by the smears peddled by police and authorities
Former Prime Minister Theresa May confessed she initially believed lies spread about the victims of the Hillsborough disaster before she later helped to launch the investigation that would confirm the truth about what happened.
She also commissioned a 2017 report by Bishop James Jones that sought to ensure that other families of victims of major disasters would not face the same long and painful battles for truth and justice as the Hillsborough families did - and has strongly backed calls for a new Hillsborough Law to help with this.
Responding, Mr Marr pointed out that members of her own Conservative Party were among those who went along with the cover-up at the time, to which she responded: "Yes everybody did go along with it. And it was, you're absolutely right, the police altered witness statements, most of them in favour of South Yorkshire Police or not to be negative about South Yorkshire Police.
The former Prime Minister spoke about the fact that the coroner at the first inquests, Dr Stefan Popper, did not accept evidence about events on the day after 3.15pm, suggesting that no one could have been saved after that.
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