People hold placards at a Grenfell justice protest outside Parliament on May 14
[John Stillwell/PA Wire]
THERESA MAY’S promise yesterday that the government will fund replacement of dangerous cladding at 158 tower blocks has been forced out of her.
Relentless campaigning by survivors of last year’s deadly Grenfell Tower blaze and the families of those who perished has kept up pressure on a government that has sought at every stage to sweep this atrocity under the carpet.
It took a 150,000-strong petition and the prospect of a parliamentary debate to force the Prime Minister to reverse her earlier refusal to allow an independent panel to sit alongside the government-appointed judge who will preside over the Grenfell inquiry — and even now that merely consists of just two members sitting in on phase two of the inquiry only.
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
As we approach the half-anniversary of the Grenfell tragedy, the community gathers to remember loved ones while grappling with mixed emotions surrounding the ongoing deconstruction of the tower and the hopeful plans for a memorial, writes EMMA DENT COAD
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON