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The Grenfell Tower as seen from Silchester Road
SADIQ KHAN branded the dismissive treatment of complaints by Grenfell Tower residents about fire safety a disgrace at the inquiry into the disaster today.
The inability of the block’s landlord to consider the “welfare of those living in the tower as a priority … left people feeling that they were looked down upon, disrespected and ignored,” Anne Studd QC, speaking on behalf of the Mayor of London, told the inquiry.
Ms Studd said the Kensington & Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation (TMO), which ran the west London residential block and oversaw its refurbishment, was “everything a TMO should not be.”
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