Grenfell Tower inquiry: the merry-go-round of buck-passing continues

By Chloë McCulloch2020-01-28T14:50:00

Finger pointing kicks off the second phase of the Grenfell Tower inquiry

“Any member of the public reading these statements and taking them all at face value would be forced to conclude that everyone involved in the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower did what they were supposed to do and nobody made any serious or causative mistakes.”

This was the damning summary of day one of the latest stage of the public inquiry into the fire at Grenfell and it came from the inquiry’s chief lawyer, Richard Millett QC. He did not hesitate in accusing the firms that worked on the refurbishment of indulging in a “merry-go-round of buck-passing”.

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