Families force May into Grenfell U-turn

THERESA May has agreed to allow experts to join a panel overseeing the public inquiry into the Grenfell tower block disaster following months of pressure from families.

The Prime Minister will appoint two people ‘with a breadth of expertise and diversity of experience’ to help chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick investigate the tragedy.

Bereaved relatives threatened to boycott the inquiry after the retired Court of Appeal judge refused calls for other experts to be included because he said he had to remain impartial.

Mrs May had previously said it was unnecessary to appoint a panel but, in an apparent U-turn, she said she now believed it would be helpful for the second phase of the independent inquiry because of its ‘increasing scale and complexity’.