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Protesters outside the Grenfell Inquiry as Phase Two got underway last week
GRANTING the cladding companies involved in the Grenfell disaster immunity from prosecution would be “tantamount to giving a licence to lie,” it was claimed today.
Corporate lawyers representing the firms responsible for fitting the London tower block with flammable cladding threatened last week to remain silent unless they are granted immunity from prosecution.
At the inquiry into the blaze that killed 72 people, families’ representative Michael Mansfield QC urged the corporate witnesses to withdraw their request.
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
The Home Secretary’s recent letter suggests the Labour government may finally deliver on its nine-year manifesto commitment, writes KATE FLANNERY, but we must move quickly: as recently as 2024 Northumbria police destroyed miners’ strike documents