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Former housing secretary denies being ‘spectacularly out of touch’ with own department

By 2022-04-08T12:03:00

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Eric Pickles gets number of victims wrong in tense exchanges with Grenfell QC

Former Cabinet minister Eric Pickles has denied being “spectacularly out of touch” with his own department on building regulations policy.

Pickles told yesterday’s hearing of the Grenfell Inquiry that the suggestion from lead counsel Richard Millett QC was “unjust” because he had been “utterly reliant” on receiving intelligence from his officials.

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