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Hello and welcome to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry podcast with me, Kate Lamble.

Earlier this week, the inquiry released its final report.

It concluded that the fire, which killed 72 people, was the culmination of decades of failure

by central government and others in the

construction industry, adding they fail to look carefully at the dangers of fitting combustible

materials to the outside of high-rise residential buildings and act on the information

available to them. The chair of the inquiry, Sir Martin Morebick,

gave a statement at the Paddington building

where the inquiry has heard evidence since 2020.

The simple truth is that the deaths that occurred

were all avoidable,

and those who lived in the tower

were badly failed over a number of years

and in a number of different ways

by those who were responsible for ensuring the safety of the building and its occupants.

They include the government, the tenant management organisation, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea,

those who manufactured and supplied the materials used in the refurbishment, those who certified their suitability

for use on high-rise buildings, the architect, the principal contractor and some of its

subcontractors in particularly Harley Curtain Wall and its successor Harley Fassards.

Some of the consultants, in particular the fire engineer X-Over Warrington Fire,

the local authorities building control department and the London Fire Brigade.

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