Grenfell survivors furious over David Cameron’s claim that inquiry backed him over red-tape drive

David Cameron’s government created a ‘one in, one out’ rule for new regulations, which became one new regulation in, three old ones out. Photograph: Mark Cuthbert/UK Press/Getty Images

David Cameron has provoked a wave of indignation from Grenfell fire survivors and housing campaigners after claiming that the inquiry agreed with him that fire regulations had not been part of his government’s “red tape drive” to cut regulations.

But campaigners said the former prime minister’s words were “bollocks” and “total bullshit”, since the inquiry report had explicitly said the effect of the Coalition government’s attack on red tape was that “even matters affecting the safety of life were ignored, delayed or disregarded”.