They deserve answers… May orders public inquiry

Theresa May yesterday ordered a full public inquiry into the tower block disaster.

speaking in Downing street, the Prime Minister said: ‘People deserve answers. The inquiry will give them.’

It will be led by a judge and will have the power to compel witnesses to attend, as the probe into the Mid staffs hospital scandal did.

Witnesses – who could include some of Mrs May’s closest colleagues – will have to testify on oath.

Last night fire minister Nick hurd promised to leave ‘no stone unturned’. he pledged lessons would be learned, adding: ‘We have to act and think as if it was our friends, our family in that block. There is no room for cool, detached, plodding bureaucracy.’

Welcoming the decision to set up a public inquiry, Jeremy Corbyn said: ‘Let’s make sure it’s speedy, it’s open and that the residents’ groups and residents concerned get the support they need to be represented at that inquiry. It cannot be right that a fire like this takes so many lives in the 21st century in modern Britain – somewhere along the line, regulations or something failed.’