Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has rejected claims she was 'defensive' and 'aggressive' in a recent meeting with the bereaved families and survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire.
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00:00So I felt weighing up all of the different conversations that I had and the engineering
00:05report that actually the only way forward really was to sensitively make sure that we
00:12start taking away the tower to ground floor level.
00:16The whole situation here is very sensitive but some of those who were bereaved or survivors
00:21of the fire felt that this week when they met you that your behaviour in the meeting
00:28was very upsetting. One of them told us the government's ruined relationships with the
00:32families in half an hour, it was a car crash. Another survivor of the fire suggested that
00:38you were even defensive, even aggressive.
00:42Well I certainly don't feel like I was aggressive and if anyone felt that way then I would be
00:47sincerely upset about that. I think what I try to do is take a really difficult meeting
00:53and explain to people and make sure that those that were bereaved had that information and
00:58the survivors had that information before the decision was made public.