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By Jordan Marshall, Joey Gardiner2021-01-06T12:52:00+00:00
Remote hearings could take place next month
The inquiry into the Grenfell Tower disaster will not resume as planned next Monday and has been delayed until at least the start of next month.
In the wake of the coronavirus lockdown announced by prime minister Boris Johnson this week, the team leading the inquiry into the fire in 2017 fire which killed 72 people has decided that its sessions should not restart until they can be moved online.
A statement released today said: This was a difficult decision, but the increase in transmissibility of the new variant of coronavirus means that there is a significant increase in the risk of infection facing anyone who travels to and works at the inquiry’s premises, notwithstanding the robustness of the arrangements in place.
Remote hearings could take place next month
The inquiry into the Grenfell Tower disaster will not resume as planned next Monday and has been delayed until at least the start of next month.
In the wake of the coronavirus lockdown announced by prime minister Boris Johnson this week, the team leading the inquiry into the fire in 2017 fire which killed 72 people has decided that its sessions should not restart until they can be moved online.
A statement released today said: This was a difficult decision, but the increase in transmissibility of the new variant of coronavirus means that there is a significant increase in the risk of infection facing anyone who travels to and works at the inquiry’s premises, notwithstanding the robustness of the arrangements in place.
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Grenfell survivors and their supporters at a protest in London last month, calling for the French government to intervene. Photograph: Guy Smallman/Getty Images
Grenfell survivors and their supporters at a protest in London last month, calling for the French government to intervene. Photograph: Guy Smallman/Getty Images
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The UK government has demanded that executives who supplied combustible cladding to Grenfell Tower “step up to the plate” after their refusal to give evidence to the public inquiry into the disaster provoked anger among the bereaved and survivors.