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🗓️ 15 May 2018
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How has the relationship between the community and officials changed in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire? BBC Newsnight's Katie Razzall walks us through the events between the June 2017 and the start of the public inquiry.
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0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the second edition of a podcast experiment from the BBC. |
0:14.6 | Our plan is quite straightforward. We want to podcast every night that the Grenfell Tower |
0:19.2 | Inquiry is sitting. We're going to try to provide a |
0:21.9 | clear briefing on each day, explain the technical evidence, demystified the jargon and the |
0:27.5 | procedures so that we can all understand better what this important inquiry is saying and doing. |
0:33.6 | We don't quite know how this is going to work as a podcast, so as we go along, please let us know what works for you and what doesn't. |
0:39.9 | You can get in touch by emailing us. We have a special address, Grenfell podcast at BBC.co.uk. |
0:47.5 | And as ever with podcasts, online reviews and word of mouth will be very important to us. |
0:57.5 | Most important, though, is that we do our best to report this inquiry. |
1:02.8 | Our nightly reports from inside the inquiry start next Monday, the 21st of May. |
1:06.4 | But we're starting by thinking about how we got to this stage, |
1:11.4 | the main events between the fire itself and the start of this public inquiry. |
1:14.7 | Katie Razl is a journalist with BBC Newsnight and has been keeping a close eye ever since the day of the fire. |
1:19.3 | There are moments in history when our leaders have to step up. |
1:23.9 | And in those immediate moments after Granfell, |
1:31.9 | when Theresa May went to the site and didn't meet survivors. |
1:38.4 | In the optics of this awful horror, it was very damaging. |
1:47.0 | Some people called it her Hurricane Katrina moment. Other people said she showed she didn't have any humanity or empathy. And you can contrast that with Jeremy Corbyn, who came down to the Grenfell site very early on |
1:51.0 | and spoke to local people and promised them that the truth would come out. |
1:56.0 | At least she could have met the victims, at least. |
1:58.0 | Corbyn, Corbin was a good man and he met them. He came and met the people. |
2:02.4 | He didn't come with a bunch of police and not even, no one saw her. |
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