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THE Prime Minister has promised the truth about what happened at Grenfell Tower on that horrific, unspeakable June night in 2017 when 72 people perished.

This sickening horror happened despite repeated warnings that such an event was inevitable and WOULD happen at some point.

And so it did.

This week, sadly, the reputation of the London Fire Brigade went up in flames too, with once-revered firefighters, dutiful men and women who charged into the blazing inferno prepared to put their lives in jeopardy in order to save others, now facing a barrage of criticism.

For doing what they thought was the right thing. Putting their lives, and their families’ futures on the line for the safety of strangers.

If any of my relatives had been involved on that unimaginable night, of course I’d sure as hell want retribution too. But the first place I’d look wouldn’t be to London fire chief Dany Cotton, nor to her staff, who heroically carried out their duties

TAKING THE FLAK Dany Cotton

without thought for their own welfare, but to the crooks hiding behind invisible screens who must have known that the building was a tinderbox waiting to be ignited.

All 24 floors were filled with residents and their electrical goods, including a fridge-freezer with a fault.

According to experts, fridge fires are nearly always caused by failure of an electric switch controlling the defrost/freeze function. That results

From next week, sadly, Parliament will be a much greyer place, following the departure of the current Speaker of the House of Commons.

Yes, the (almost) irreplaceable John Bercow has come to the end of his term after flaunting his black robe armed with such wit and sarcastic, sardonic, caustic aplomb. A in a small fire developing at the base on the back of the fridge, which quickly ignites the mainly polystyrene and plastic-based insulation materials around it.

So why are fridges prone to that fatal flaw still being manufactured? It’s not what happened on the night that matters the most now. It will always matter.

What we need right now are answers as to why the finger of blame is mainly being pointed at the public servants who laid their lives on the line for strangers, while that cladding wrapped the tower despite senior people knowing its propensity to inflammability.

It was “the principle reason for the fire’s rapid spread”.

Dany Cotton did her best in unprecedented circumstances. She’s taking the flak, while the combustible cladding remains to live another day and cause another fire. You really couldn’t make that up.

Dutiful men and women put their lives in jeopardy to save others

working-class lad with a self-taught upper-class voice and manner, I wouldn’t like him at all if he hadn’t been so brilliantly adept at ruffling the feathers and denting the egos of the entitled Conservative members of the House.

He leaves VERY big shoes to fill. And quite a lot of robe too.

Mind you, going forward, I reckon it’d look very fetching on the irrepressible Harriet Harman.