Thursday briefing: What the Grenfell inquiry reveals about the incompetence and dishonesty that led to the fire

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In today’s newsletter: Sir Martin Moore-Bick’s report lays out how to avoid a similar disaster from happening again. But the bereaved want to more than recommendations – they want prosecutions• Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning. More than seven years after the deaths of 72 people in the Grenfell Tower fire, the report of the public inquiry into the causes was finally published yesterday – and it forms a devastating verdict on the incompetence, dishonesty and greed that made the disaster possible.Sir Martin Moore-Bick’s report paints a horrifying picture of failures in the construction industry, the council, regulators and central government. It prompted apologies from Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak on behalf of consecutive governments, and demands from the families of the victims for changes that they say are “already three decades too late”.UK politics | Robert Jenrick is leading the race to replace Rishi Sunak as Conservative party leader after a first round of MP voting that placed the former migration minister top and eliminated Priti Patel. Jenrick won the support of 28 of his parliamentary colleagues, ahead of Kemi Badenoch, who won 22 votes.Education | Suspensions and exclusions from schools in England went up by more than a fifth in the past year, according to analysis of live attendance data. A new report detailing the change raises concerns about children being shifted out of mainstream education into alternative provision.Ukraine | Dmytro Kuleba has resigned as Ukraine’s foreign minister as part of a wide-ranging government reshuffle designed to give what Volodymyr Zelenskiy has called “new strength” to the government and the country.Israel-Gaza war | The UN children’s agency has said that a polio vaccination campaign to inoculate more than 640,000 children in Gaza is surpassing expectations at the end of the first phase of the programme. Describing the campaign as a “rare bright spot” in the war, Unicef said 189,000 children had been reached so far.Social media | YouTube is to stop recommending videos to teenagers that idealise specific fitness levels, body weights or physical features, after experts warned such content could be harmful if viewed repeatedly. The platform will still allow 13- to 17-year-olds to view the videos, but its algorithms will not push young users down related content “rabbit holes” afterwards. Continue reading…

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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/05/first-edition-grenfell-report

Author : Archie Bland

Publish date : 2024-09-05 07:51:49

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