Rayner told Grenfell survivors and the bereaved last night that Grenfell Tower would be demolished. Many of them say they haven’t been informed or engaged with enough and are furious…
Survivor Emma O’Connor spoke to the Today Programme about how Rayner conducted the meeting:
“From my memory, from yesterday, it was: ‘I’ve made this decision. I’ll take questions now.’ So it went round, we had three questions at a time and then they would reply back to us, but they’re not answering questions like if the decision is reversible – to actually make sure that something can be erected at height, like to have a standing memorial.”
Despite persistent steer from presenter Anna Foster towards attacking the Tories the survivor focussed her anger on Rayner:
“You’ve had barely 16 people attend the other meetings that you’ve arranged and you’ve got more than 60% here so how did you come to that decision, but she never really answered how they’ve come to that decision.”
O’Connor went on to attack Reeves for promising deregulation at the same time. No one said politics was easy…
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”