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Go to Spectator.co. UK forward slash voucher. Hello and I'm joined today by the spectators Isabel Hartman and Liam Halligan, Telegraph columnist and author of Home Truths.

Now today the report into the Grenfell disaster has been published after seven years, a 1700 page report.

Isabelle you write on Coffey House that nobody comes out of this

well.

I mean certainly the people whose job it was to ensure fire safety prevents fire from spreading, listen to the concerns of

residents and indeed help with those left in the aftermath. It pretty much all

failed to one degree or another. I think the only group who come out

really well from this is the local community around Grenfell who did some of the

work that the local council should have done in the aftermath of the

fire in terms of providing a resting place, providing food and helping with

accommodation and so on. So it is, you know, it's a bleak report into institutional

failure in central and local governments, into attitudes where you have, you know,

toxic behavior, distrust, dislike was described in the relationship between the

tenant management organization and the Grenfell residents, ministers in central government

and the communities and local government department

being well aware of the of the fire risks in high-rise buildings but not acting on

them even a year before the Grandfell Fire, but for years before then.

And then it's, you know, this isn't just about public administration, this is also about

companies who were, you know, commercial organizations but also working in a

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