Pressure on May to launch inquiry over tainted blood

PRESSURE is growing on Theresa May to order a public inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal following the disclosure of damning new documents.

Forced to address the issue in the Commons yesterday, she said ministers will examine ‘any new evidence that is brought forward’ but did not respond to demands for a probe.

An estimated 2,000 Britons died with hepatitis and HIV after they received tainted blood clotting agents in the 1970s and 1980s. Papers published in the Mail on Tuesday revealed that officials continued to give patients contaminated blood for at least five years after discovering the danger in 1981.

Labour MP Diana Johnson said the