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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Jessica Murray Social affairs correspondent

Architect George Clarke calls for boycott of firms criticised by Grenfell inquiry

Grenfell Tower, now covered up, seen from above.
The companies provided cladding panels or the foam insulation that filled them for Grenfell Tower, which
caught fire in 2017 killing 72 people.
Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA

Grenfell United and the TV architect George Clarke are calling on businesses and homeowners to take a “moral decision” and boycott the companies criticised in the Grenfell inquiry for “systematic dishonesty”.

Clarke, best known for his series George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces, said he had made the decision not to use products from Arconic, Kingspan and Celotex, three companies that were heavily criticised in the findings of the Grenfell inquiry published last year and who have continued to deny wrongdoing.

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