Government’s concealment of cladding dangers ‘one of the major scandals of our time’, Grenfell Inquiry hears

By Tom Lowe2021-12-07T11:20:00

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Inquiry told that coalition government allowed itself to become the “junior partner” to the construction industry in a drive to cut red tape

Successive governments over the past three decades have engaged in a “prolonged period of concealment” of the fire safety risks of dangerous cladding, the Grenfell Inquiry has heard.

Stephanie Barwise QC, lawyer for the bereaved and survivors of the 2017 blaze, said it was one of the “major scandals of our time”.

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