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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Vanessa Thorpe Arts and media correspondent

Steve McQueen voices ‘dismay’ after MPs snub Grenfell Tower film invitation

Artist Steve McQueen said he sent dozens of invitations to MPs to attend a screening of his Grenfell Tower film, but only four of them have replied and visited
Artist Steve McQueen said he sent dozens of invitations to MPs to attend a screening of his Grenfell Tower film, but only four have replied and visited. Photograph: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

One of Britain’s leading film and television directors, the award-winning artist Steve McQueen, has expressed his dismay at the lack of response by politicians to his film Grenfell, a powerful visual statement on the devastating London fire of 2017. The UK’s political class has, he says, largely avoided coming to watch it.

“Their silence says a lot about what is happening in this country. If MPs are turning their backs on something like this film, what does it mean?” McQueen told the Observer.

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