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London council spends £15.6 million on fire safety consultants

Hackney Council made several pledges to improve fire safety across its housing estates following the 2017 Grenfell disaster

Evening Standard · Apr 24

Voices: Prisoners should not be housed in unsanitary death traps

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: We must not wait for a repeat of the Grenfell fire to notice that, behind the forbidding walls and barbed wire of Britain’s prison estate, there are fatal cell fires waiting to happen

The Independent UK · Apr 23

Reform sack housing spokesman over ‘deeply dehumanising’ Grenfell comments

Simon Dudley said ‘everyone dies’ and claimed ‘the pendulum has swung too far’ on building safety regulations

The Independent UK · Apr 2

Starmer calls for Reform to sack housing spokesman after ‘sickeningly insensitive’ Grenfell comments

Simon Dudley is facing criticism after saying ‘everyone dies’ and claiming ‘the pendulum has swung too far’ on building safety regulations

The Independent UK · Apr 2

UK politics Q&A, as it happened: Andrew Sparrow answers your questions on Starmer, Reform and more

Post your questions below to get insight from the Guardian’s politics live blogger on the future of Labour and the role of the political reporter

The Guardian - UK · Apr 2

Anger at Reform housing spokesman over ‘everyone has to die’ Grenfell comment

Simon Dudley said the pendulum had ‘swung too far the wrong way’ on building regulations.

Evening Standard · Apr 1

Grenfell Tower stairwell handprints to be saved but Arabic script ‘hasn’t been preserved’

The fire at the west London tower in 2017 killed 72 people

Evening Standard · Mar 13

Grenfell families launch legal fight to save staircase wall that bears haunting handprints

Relatives discovered the handprints during a final visit to the tower in July 2025

Evening Standard · Feb 26

Memorial to 72 victims of Grenfell fire to be funded by new legislation

Housing secretary says bill will give spending authority needed to build and maintain ‘dignified memorial’

The Guardian - UK · Feb 25

Grenfell firms still receiving multimillion-pound public contracts, analysis finds

Survivors urge government to stop using suppliers cited in public inquiry into fire in which 72 people died

The Guardian - UK · Dec 29, 2025