Grenfell prosecutions are now “essential” - Andrew Marr
The Politics Show
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🗓️ 5 September 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The Grenfell report is damning. Will there finally be justice for Grenfell?
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After seven long years the Grenfell Inquiry has published its damning verdict: the 72 deaths caused by the Grenfell Tower fire were completely avoidable.
The 1500-page report names and shames companies and government bodies who’s choices and actions led to the deaths.
In this episode, Andrew Marr and Rachel Cunliffe join Hannah Barnes to discuss the findings of the inquiry and why justice must finally come for Grenfell.
They also review the Conservative leadership race following the first vote which saw former Home Secretary Priti Patel fall at the first hurdle. Andrew and Rachel report on view within Westminster of the remaining candidates, and why one in particular divides opinion among MPs in the Commons tea rooms.
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Read more:
Megan Kenyon on the Grenfell report: failure on an industrial scale https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2024/09/grenfell-inquiry-failure-on-an-industrial-scale
George Eaton: the Grenfell report is damning for David Cameron
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| 1:02.0 | Hello I'm Hannah Barnes and you're listening to the New Statesman podcast Parliament |
| 1:07.5 | is back and so are we I'm joined in the studio today by my colleagues Andrew Mar and Rachel Kuncliffe. |
| 1:15.0 | Parliament returned on Monday after going on summer recess, but the MPs are only back for |
| 1:20.1 | 10 days until the 12th of September before we hit another recess for party conferences |
| 1:25.8 | until the 7th of October. No break for us though, we will be there too, bringing you all the |
| 1:30.4 | updates from those party conferences over the coming weeks. But back to |
| 1:35.5 | today we're going to be looking at the Tory leadership contest but before we do |
| 1:39.2 | that I want us to reflect on the findings of Sir Martin Moore Bick's seven-year inquiry into Grenfell |
| 1:46.4 | that the fire that killed 72 people and left 800 others homeless. I have to confess I haven't read the whole 1500 pages yet but just |
| 1:58.0 | appalling negligence dishonesty, deceit and I guess the thing that is most shocking is that every single one of those |
| 2:05.7 | deaths was avoidable. Andrew, I don't know what you have taken away from this most. |
| 2:10.7 | Well it certainly was. When I I was responding I thought there were |
| 2:14.0 | two figures that we should all remember one is of course the 72 people who died |
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