Season 4 · Episode 2

The Cook Report: Where Did the Money Go?

After the miners’ strike in 1984, there were accusations that Arthur Scargill had misappropriated National Union of Mineworkers funds and that money which should have gone to the striking miners had never reached them. The Cook Report investigated over two programmes. Witnesses said that, UK public donations aside, the funds had come from two sources – from Russian miners showing solidarity with their British brothers, and from the coffers of Colonel Gaddafi in Libya.