> When it was last in government, Labour excluded some “common parts” of buildings from changes it made to inspection rules for tall buildings.
Reading that, some common areas doesn’t sound bad. Could be anything but surely not something major.
> These **included external walls** later blamed for spreading flames at Grenfell.
FFS, how can external walls not be something significant for fire safety. Perhaps back then it was all concrete and so not an issue, but that does seem perplexing to a mere layman.
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Over the next five months, the inquiry will examine government decisions going at least as far back as New Labour from 1997 onwards.
I wonder why they picked that cutoff date? Almost like if they didn’t go back that far, they couldn’t partially smear Labour, but if they went back farther it might show the issue didn’t start there.
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> When it was last in government, Labour excluded some “common parts” of buildings from changes it made to inspection rules for tall buildings.
Reading that, some common areas doesn’t sound bad. Could be anything but surely not something major.
> These **included external walls** later blamed for spreading flames at Grenfell.
FFS, how can external walls not be something significant for fire safety. Perhaps back then it was all concrete and so not an issue, but that does seem perplexing to a mere layman.
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Over the next five months, the inquiry will examine government decisions going at least as far back as New Labour from 1997 onwards.
I wonder why they picked that cutoff date? Almost like if they didn’t go back that far, they couldn’t partially smear Labour, but if they went back farther it might show the issue didn’t start there.
How convenient.