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HONOURABLE? (From left to right) Former cricketer Geoffrey Boycott, who once said he needed to "black up" to receive a knighthood; John Mann receive a peerage the day after joining the Tories as the government's anti-semitism tsar, and Gavin Barwell, who a Grenfell Fire victim said had ‘repeatedly ignored letters regarding fire safety’ from MPs before the blaze that killed 72 people
THE auntie of 12-year-old Grenfell fire victim Jessica Urbano Ramirez slammed yesterday’s “absolutely disgraceful” award of a peerage to former housing minister Gavin Barwell.
Ana Ospina argued that Mr Barwell had “repeatedly ignored letters regarding fire safety” from MPs before the horrific June 2017 blaze that killed 72 people.
She criticised his appointment to the House of Lords — before the inquiry into the fire concludes — and the £300 a day plus expenses that, as a peer, he will receive for life.
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
Long before modern labour movements, England’s farmworkers fought back against their oppression – and for some, like Elizabeth Studham, the price was exile to Australia. MAT COWARD tells the story
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES