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was elected Kensington MP just weeks before the fire, said she wished she had been elected earlier because, “I knew it could have been a risk”.

The Labour MP, who had read a blog raising fire safety fears, added: “The past year has entrenched all my beliefs... about the council and how they behave with people. I now feel I have evidence of their disdain.”

She also criticised a accommodat­ion. Five households have not yet found anywhere suitable.

From the walkways, the area adjoining the tower, 129 households moved out, of which less than a third decision by a social housing chief, whose tenants died in the fire, to throw a fashion book launch party on the anniversar­y tonight. She said of Notting Hill Genesis chief Kate Davies, who blogs about fashion outside her £220,000-a-year job: “Her timing is tasteless in the extreme.” Meanwhile, Theresa May told grassroots group Grenfell Speaks that she was sorry she did not meet have returned. A Kensington and Chelsea council spokesman said: “We have staff doing everything they can to rehouse families as quickly as possible.

“We’ve committed £235million to secure 307 homes.” victims immediatel­y after the fire, saying she was shocked by stories of “the absolute horror of what people had gone through”.

May was slammed at Prime Minister’s Questions for admitting 26 of 209 Grenfell families have still not accepted offers of permanent homes.

She insisted of the 203 households displaced, 183 have now accepted an offer of a permanent new home. But, of those, just 83 have moved in.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: “The reality is that some of them have still not got a permanent home.

“It is very important for the mental wellbeing of everybody that they have somewhere they can call home.”

Public buildings and tower blocks in west London were last night lit up in green as a mark of solidarity.

The number of people killed in the Grenfell Tower fire

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