How the failures that caused Grenfell still exist today

Описание: More than eight years after the Grenfell Tower fire killed 72 people, the companies, materials and rules that made it possible are still shaping how homes are built, in the UK and around the world.
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Neelam Tailor looks at how deregulation, industry lobbying and corporate greed allowed a preventable tragedy to happen, and why, even now, some of the companies criticised by the public inquiry continue to receive million pound public contracts, impacting the safety of our homes.

📌 Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:59 The Grenfell public inquiry
01:25 Timeline of how successive governments put profit before safety
02:45 Corporate greed behind Grenfell
03:53 Timeline continued from 2017
05:20 Grenfell building companies doing better than ever
05:56 Evidence of these companies lobbying government
06:25 The companies are still being given public contracts

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