The government has appointed the chief executive of a Leeds housing association as the third member of the panel for the Grenfell Inquiry.

Ali Akbor will sit at the inquiry’s hearings from November 2, alongside chairman Martin Moore-Bick and architect Thouria Istephan, a partner at Foster & Partners.

The delay in appointing a third panellist after two resignations was criticised by a group representing the bereaved and survivors of the fire which claimed 72 lives in 2017.

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