Fire at London’s Grenfell Tower that claimed 71 lives was the result of ‘decades of failure’, damning report finds

The damning report outlines how decisions dating back to the early 1990s, including how fire safety was organised and managed in the apartment building, led to the disaster.

Successive governments have “ignored, delayed or disregarded” safety concerns about the practices in place. Manufacturers of the cladding and insulation have “deliberately concealed” fire risks. And the way building safety is managed in England and Wales is “poor, complex and fragmented”, the 1,700-page report, which took seven years to produce, says.