Grenfell is simply explained: firms chased profits, ministers sat on their hands, innocents paid with their lives | Peter Apps

"At its heart, Grenfell is a story about human suffering. It is about the 72 victims, 18 of them children, needlessly lost in a tower block fire that could so easily have been avoided."

"But today’s report is also a story about politics, economics and power. It is about the sort of society we have built for ourselves in 21st-century Britain."

"For years, bereaved and survivors have thrown a two-word accusation at those they see as responsible: they knew. This report confirms that."

"At every stage government advisers and officials hum and haw and do nothing. It encapsulates the broken political philosophy the report outlines."

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