Mike

IN an awful week I couldn’t help but notice that George Osborne, the political architect of austerity which played its part in the Grenfell Tower tragedy in London, was busily plugging his new paper’s coverage of it on his Twitter account.

At present 30 people have been officially confirmed dead but the final figure will be around 100 fatalities.

As Osborne, the Evening Standard editor, tweeted pictures of its front pages with headlines like ‘Death Trap’ and ‘Inferno’ did he feel a twinge of guilt?

Likewise, did he feel any sense of remorse or culpability when his paper covered the London and Manchester terrorist attacks?

What links all three is the socalled austerity policy he championed which essentially meant taking an axe to the welfare state that was established to look after people who live in the UK – particularly the poor and the vulnerable – in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthy and businesses and pay off the national debt.

Among its many consequences