Grenfell report: the risk of holding everyone to account is no one actually gets the blame

By Matthew Flinders, Founding Director of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics, University of Sheffield

Former prime minister Theresa May announced a public inquiry into the Grenfell fire just 24 hours after the tragedy in June 2017. That the project was set in motion while emergency services were still at the scene underlined a broad sense of shock and disbelief that a catastrophe of such a scale could have occurred in 21st-century London.

How was it possible for a reinforced concrete building, itself structurally impervious to fire, to be turned into a death trap…

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