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British papers home in on push for criminal charges after inquiry blames 2017 disaster on government failures and dishonesty of companies

Some say they have been ‘robbed of justice’ as others accuse companies involved of having ‘blood on their hands’

For the 72 victims and their families, there must be hope that fine words in the commons will be backed up by finer deeds

After inquiry finds all 72 deaths were avoidable, some bereaved and survivors express frustration over pace of investigation

As Britain absorbs the second phase of the report into the Grenfell Tower inferno, with its accumulation of horrors, an event last week serves as warning and a rebuke to the pace with which we have got here. Is it really possible, seven years after that disaster, that the cause…

Seven years after the fire in Grenfell Tower took 72 lives, the final report into the causes of the tragedy has been published. The inquiry’s findings place damning blame on companies, the government, bodies responsible for building regulation and emergency services. It concludes the victims were “badly failed” by those…

Governments have a duty to protect their citizens. While they won’t go as far as telling us what we can and cannot put in our homes, we do expect them to ensure that the buildings we live in are safe from fire.

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It is tempting to think that politics stops today. That the publication of the final report by the Grenfell Inquiry demands a cessation of partisan hostilities. That the House of Commons is, in that tedious cliché, "at its best" when it is united. But this would be wrong.

Final report calls for a series of measures, while the CPS has said any charging decisions are unlikely until end of 2026

‘Unscrupulous’ companies, ‘dishonesty and greed’ and regulatory failure are at fault.