‘Decades of failure’: Who has UK’s Grenfell Tower fire inquiry blamed?

Natasha Elcock, a survivor of the Grenfell Tower fire and one of the leaders of Grenfell United, speaks to the media following Wednesday's release of the final report into the fire in London [Frank Augstein/AP]

The Grenfell Tower fire, which killed 72 people in June 2017, was the result of “an unedifying merry-go-round of buck passing” and “systematic dishonesty and greed”, a damning, 1,700-page final report on the disaster, published on Wednesday, has concluded.

Inquiry chair Sir Martin Moore-Bick made a blistering public statement alongside the report’s publication, which comes more than seven years after the disaster, in which he highlighted a litany of failures by local council leaders, government, the fire service and the producers of the materials used to build and clad the tower block of flats.