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People hold placards at a Grenfell justice protest outside Parliament on May 14
[John Stillwell/PA Wire]
THERESA MAY’S promise yesterday that the government will fund replacement of dangerous cladding at 158 tower blocks has been forced out of her.
Relentless campaigning by survivors of last year’s deadly Grenfell Tower blaze and the families of those who perished has kept up pressure on a government that has sought at every stage to sweep this atrocity under the carpet.
It took a 150,000-strong petition and the prospect of a parliamentary debate to force the Prime Minister to reverse her earlier refusal to allow an independent panel to sit alongside the government-appointed judge who will preside over the Grenfell inquiry — and even now that merely consists of just two members sitting in on phase two of the inquiry only.
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