Council did not have resources to tackle London fire, according to Jeremy Corbyn
Britain’s opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Sunday the local authority in London where a fire killed at least 58 people last week did not have the resources to deal with an emergency of that scale.
He told ITV’s Peston on Sunday that the community and emergency services were “incredible” in tackling the fire and its aftermath.
“What was less effective was the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, because they seemed to lack the resources to deal with a crisis of this magnitude in their borough and yet they are the country’s wealthiest borough,” the Labour leader said.
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Government did respond to fire safety recommendations, UK minister says
British finance minister Phillip Hammond said on Sunday the government had acted on safety recommendations after an earlier fire in London in 2009, but it would wait for the public inquiry to make changes in regulation.
Prime Minister Theresa May is under pressure after a devastating fire in an apartment block in London trapped people in their beds and killed 58 people last week. Opposition politicians say the government ignored recommendations from a 2013 review after another London fire killed six people.
“We have looked, obviously, at those recommendations and what has happened to them. My assessment is that we have responded correctly and appropriately to those recommendations,” Phillip Hammond told the BBC’s Andrew Marr show.
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