Failed communities unite to demand government action on Grenfell anniversary
VICTIMS of the government’s systemic failures have demanded that the next prime minister take recommendations from public inquiries seriously.
Communities affected by the infected blood scandal, Covid and the Grenfell fire are calling for a new mechanism to ensure that their struggles are not in vain.
They have joined forces on the seventh anniversary of the Grenfell Tower blaze, in which 72 residents were killed after a fire ripped through the 24-storey block in north Kensington.
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