An all-party alliance of MPs yesterday backed the campaign to win justice for the 96 Hillsborough victims.
The 150-strong All Party Football Group will hold an urgent meeting next week to see how it can help the families discover the truth.
MPs on the group – the largest such body in Parliament – insist that any documents relating to the disaster 20 years ago should not remain hidden.
Families and friends of those who died are furious that despite the police being blamed, no officers have ever faced justice.
They want the inquests reopened and official records of the tragic FA Cup semi-final released.
The documents include a police file from 1989-90 which makes it clear Liverpool fans were being criminally investigated for causing the disaster.
Solicitor Ann Adlington said: “The file has never seen the light of day.”
Alan Keen, the Labour chairman of the All Party Football Group, said the continued cover-up was a “scandal”. He said: “When there has been a bereavement what bereaved people want is some facts about what happened.
“It is scandalous this has gone on such a long time. People going through this are angry. I think the group would want to take up the campaign.”
The vice chairman of the group, Tory MP John Greenway, also lent his support.
He promised a special meeting of the group when MPs return to Westminster next week after the Easter break.
Speaking in a personal capacity, he said that if there was any further information on the tragedy it should be “brought forward”.
However, there was a note of caution from Professor Phil Scraton, who wrote the authoritative book on the disaster, The Truth.
He called for the appointment of independent investigators who would collate documents before they are made public.
He said: “If the government is serious about launching another enquiry, the relevant documents need to be reviewed by a credible group of people before an official enquiry is launched.”
Pressure for action mounted as thousands signed a petition on the Downing Street website.
The petition has received more than 3,000 signatures in under two days.
Posted on the No 10 website on 15 April, the 20th anniversary of the tragedy, it says: “We ask the Prime Minister to instruct the relevant parties to investigate whether criminal charges should be brought.”
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