Nuked Blood: Crunch time for Labour on veterans scandal Veterans will launch a series of legal battles against the government next year, unless Keir Starmer agrees to help them get to the bottom of the Nuked Blood Scandal.
In Opposition, Prime Minister Keir Starmer promised veterans “your campaign is our campaign”, while Defence Secretary John Healey said there was “no good moral reason, no good military reason, for withholding the recognition and compensation...
Veteran John Folkes, who flew through four atomic clouds in 1956 and later found 14 months of medical records from the time are missing, said: “I have one wish for next year.
They say that the Ministry of Defence has failed to answer questions on the whereabouts of blood tests conducted on thousands of troops during the weapons trials, despite months of legal letters.
And families who say that nuke veterans’ medical records are missing - either unlawfully destroyed or withheld - could make a criminal complaint to the police.
