How closely has the government followed the Grenfell Inquiry’s recommendations?
By Tom Lowe and Daniel Gayne2025-03-05T12:00:00
While Angela Rayner has promised to ‘take forward’ all of the recommendations, not all appear to have been adopted to the letter. Daniel Gayne and Tom Lowe analyse the wriggle room the government has given itself over some of the key measures
A “sweeping transformation” of building safety standards is what the government promised in its full response to the Grenfell Inquiry’s final report last week. In her speech in the House of Commons on 26 February, Angela Rayner set out the “tough action” that would be taken to “drive change and reform the system to ensure no community will ever have to face a tragedy like Grenfell ever again”.
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