MP: Inquiry chief shouldn’t be white man

A LABOUR MP has said that a ‘white, upper middle class man’ should not have been appointed to lead the Grenfell Tower inquiry.

David Lammy suggested retired Court of Appeal judge Sir Martin Moore-Bick had never visited a tower block on a housing estate and urged him to spend a night on the 20th floor of one.

He said it was a shame that a judge who is a woman or from an ethnic minority had not been selected. Tottenham MP Mr Lammy, whose friend Khadija Saye died in the fire, told Sky News: ‘The job is not just to be independent and judicious, it is also to be empathetic and walk with these people on this journey.

‘He needs to get close to those victims and survivors very quickly and establish he is after the truth.’ Sir Martin has been described by Theresa May as ‘highly respected and experienced’.