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Blair’s government can’t escape blame for the Grenfell disaster

7 September 2024

10:17 PM

7 September 2024

10:17 PM

‘This is a difficult thing to say, but it’s the honest truth – however good your system is and however well-intentioned it is, and however hard people work, they’re going to make mistakes.’

So said former prime minister Tony Blair on Sky News on Thursday – in response to being asked whether the Grenfell Tower fire represented ‘a failure of leadership’ by government.

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