With the Grenfell inquiry resuming last week, it brings awful memories from that night three years ago back to the forefront of our minds.
I will never forget. I see the tower every time I leave my house to go to work, or into town, and it is hard to think about – but not as hard as it is forAdvertisement Likewise, concerns were raised after a fire that killed six in 2009 at Lakanal House, a tower block in Camberwell, were not acted on.in high-rise accommodation, as did MPs such as Harriet Harman, in whose constituency the Lakanal House fire occurred.
I don’t know if the bias we so often see towards people living in blocks like these is conscious or unconscious, or if it was deeper in the case of Grenfell, but that is exactly why the inquiry needs to examine whether institutionalIf the inquiry does not, I fear we won’t get the truth we need. Or be able to ensure it never happens again.
It would serve as evidence of the grave consequences that come about when some people’s views are seen as unimportant. History is sadly littered with people whose voices were discounted and we know that it often leads to catastrophic outcomes.