Rayner: We will work at pace to bring change after Grenfell
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner said that survivors of the Grenfell fire tragedy want "change and justice", and that such change must come quickly. She committed to "working at pace" to ensure people get justice, and ensuring safety for people living in similar tower blocks. Rayner's comments comes after Sir Keir Starmer issued a state apology for a disaster he said should never have happened. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00It wasn't just one part of a system, it was every single bit of the system systematically
00:06failing people and for me the first absolute priority of any government is to keep its
00:12citizens safe and this is an element of that as well and that means that we've got to
00:17do more. Those recommendations of 58 that were part of that report yesterday, we have
00:22to look at them now like the Prime Minister says and those that we could do more quickly
00:27we will but we will look through those recommendations and do everything we possibly can to make sure
00:33that people are safe in their own homes. When I spoke to the survivors and the families
00:38of the victims who lost their lives at Grenfell, they want change and they want justice and
00:45whilst there has been changes that have been made and many of those changes are to the
00:50credit of those that have bravely fought for it, for not just about what happened to themselves
00:55and their loved ones but for people who today are still living in high-rise blocks that
01:00need this remediation work to be carried out, that change for me has not come quickly enough
01:05in particular around remediation and it's very clear to me in the initial looking at
01:11those recommendations there will need to be further legislation and we will look at working
01:16at pace to ensure that we bring about those changes.