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The Guardian Archive Long read. Long read. I'm Robert Booth.

I'm the Social Affairs Correspondent of The Guardian and I'm the author of the

long read A Merry-Go-round of Buck Passing inside the four-year

Grandful Inquiry which was published in 2022.

What drew me to write this piece was that I'd been reporting for several years on the

Grenfell Inquiry, which had been going on in London looking into the causes of the

fire in June 2017, which claimed 72 lives.

And as it drew to its conclusion, I really wanted to do as much as I could to try and gather all the different thoughts that I had about what the inquiry was telling us, not just in in factual terms, but I wanted to try and drag out the themes and

understand what the lessons were for our economy and our society and our politics that seemed to be bubbling under the surface of the often quite technical

and quite dry material that was being revealed every day at the inquiry rooms.

When I finished the long read I was expecting as everybody in the Grandford community was also expecting the conclusions to be published much sooner than they have been. It's over two years now since the

long reader was published and now we have finally this week the 1700 page conclusions and recommendations that Sir Martin Moore Bick, the inquiry

chairman and his team, have made.

It's a big moment for the community. They now have in detail the answers that they were looking for about what caused the fire, what the negligent parties did and didn't do and a clearer sense that they've been longing for of the causes of the deaths of so many of their loved ones and the trauma that has affected many more people.

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