‘Decades of failure’: Who has UK’s Grenfell Tower fire inquiry blamed?

‘Unscrupulous’ manufacturers of dangerous materials, ‘dishonesty and greed’ and regulatory failure all caused the disaster.

The Grenfell Tower fire, which killed 72 people in June 2017, was the result of “an unedifying merry-go-round of buck passing” and “systematic dishonesty and greed”, a damning, 1,700-page final report on the disaster, published on Wednesday, has concluded.

Inquiry chair Sir Martin Moore-Bick made a blistering public statement alongside the report’s publication, which comes more than seven years after the disaster, in which he highlighted a litany of failures by local council leaders, government, the fire service and the producers of the materials used to build and clad the tower block of flats.

The report included a list of recommendations which Moore-Bick said must be implemented to avoid a similar catastrophe occurring again.

Here’s more about the Grenfell Tower fire, as well as key takeaways from the final report:

Just before 00:00 GMT on June 14, 2017, a fire broke out in a kitchen on the fourth floor of the high-rise residential building, located in the North Kensington area of London, which was built in the early 1970s.