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Stopping future Grenfells requires more than a change of mindset

WORTHY as Dame Judith Hackitt’s interim conclusions on the Grenfell fire tragedy are, it will take more than a “culture shift” to stop such crimes happening again.

Hackitt argues that regulatory changes will “not be sufficient unless we can change the culture away from one of doing the minimum required for compliance to one of taking ownership and responsibility.”

There are echoes here of Nick Clegg’s plea to bankers to remember they didn’t live in a “social vacuum” but were part of society, of David Cameron’s injunction to Starbucks to “wake up and smell the coffee” on tax avoidance and of Ed Miliband’s dream of a “responsible capitalism.”

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