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Today in Focus

Grenfell inquiry final phase: will politicians be held accountable?

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

As the Grenfell inquiry heads towards its concluding stages, politicians will be called to account for their part in the deadly fire. Our social affairs correspondent Robert Booth has been watching on throughout • How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:09.0

Today, the Granfield inquiry is entering its final stage,

0:12.8

investigating the role of government and politicians in the tragedy.

0:16.8

What will it mean for the family seeking justice?

0:30.8

So, one turns really to a section and I'm skipping over foreign fires, lacrosse and all the other ones that come in the list.

0:39.8

For over four years, away from the occasional headlines,

0:42.8

this is what the Granfield tower inquiry has sounded like.

0:45.8

As recently as the 29th of October, King Span's solicitors wrote to the inquiry.

0:50.8

Dry, technical, complicated.

0:54.8

By way of overview, from 1957 onwards,

0:57.8

responsibility for building regulations and housing may be...

1:00.8

But some people have listened to almost every minute.

1:05.8

Tiago Alves, a university student, escaped from his home on that night in June 2017,

1:12.8

leaving the 13th floor of Granfield tower with his mother, his father and younger sister.

1:18.8

He's been following the inquiry ever since.

1:22.8

When the inquiry first started, it was difficult to kind of leave it without listening to it.

1:29.8

It was difficult to do other things because of the emotions and the struggles that I was dealing with at the time,

1:36.8

just made it so that I had to be involved and I had to be there and I had to be listening.

1:42.8

Kareem Musseli, lost his uncle to the fire.

1:45.8

I mean, it's been extremely difficult. I'm not going to lie.

1:48.8

Five years has gone by so quickly, but at the same time, I don't even remember what my life was like before Granfield.

1:53.8

We have a life before Granfield and after Granfield.

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