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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent

Second Grenfell Tower inquiry play to put Eric Pickles in spotlight

Eric Pickles
Eric Pickles was accused of failing to tighten building regulations after an earlier fire. Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA

A play dramatising the “merry-go-round of buck-passing” at the Grenfell Tower public inquiry will open in February, casting actors as Eric Pickles, the former housing secretary, and Hisam Choucair, who lost six members of his family in the 2017 fire.

Grenfell: System Failure will be the sequel to a critically acclaimed verbatim play exploring the disastrous construction project that led to west London council block being clad in plastic panels that burned like petrol.

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