Government may face Commons defeat over compensation for infected blood victims
The Government could suffer a Commons defeat after Labour joined Tory rebels in backing calls to establish a new body to help compensate infected blood victims.
Thousands of patients were infected with HIV and hepatitis C through contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s.
, led by Labour’s Dame (Kingston upon Hull North), are backing an amendment requiring ministers to establish a body to administer the full Bill becoming law.
