Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner told of her anger over the shocking findings in the Grenfell Report and urged the Met Police to bring the culprits for the blaze to justice “as quickly as possible”.Charges for the appalling failures blamed for the blaze in June 2017 are not expected until 2026, with any court cases possibly only starting the following year, a decade after the tragedy.
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00:00Reading Sir Martin's summary and the volumes that he's collated, the failures were systemic.
00:07Absolutely everybody, whether it was a regulator, whether it was those that had the materials,
00:12whether it was the government, whether it was the council, the tenant management organiser,
00:17every single layer failed to recognise and to protect those residents at Grenfell and it is
00:24absolutely shocking to see that and this government has got to make sure that we
00:31accelerate remediation. I've looked at it and I'm not happy with the pace that we're at at
00:36the moment and we've got to look at the 58 recommendations that Sir Martin has come forward
00:42and make sure that we do everything we can to meet those and go beyond to ensure that people
00:47are confident. One of the things that was really striking to me was the greed and deregulation
00:54had been put before safety and that's what needs to change is that actually the number one priority
01:00of any government is to keep its citizens safe and this is part of that process.