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Government bears some blame for Grenfell fire, UK housing minister says

Government bears some blame for Grenfell fire, UK housing minister says

LONDON: The British government is partly to blame for the Grenfell fire which killed 72 people in 2017 as building regulations were deficient and could be exploited by developers in a way that was unsafe, housing minister Michael Gove said on Sunday.In June 2017, Grenfell Tower, a 23-storey social housing block in west London, was destroyed by a fire started by an electrical fault in a refrigerator, Britain's deadliest fire in a residential building since World War Two.A combustible cladding system retro-fitted to the tower's external walls was the main factor in the unstoppable spread of the flames, and the disaster prompted a wave of soul-searching over whether neglect of an ethnically mixed, largely low-income community had played a part in the tower's fate.Gove told the Sunday Times that building guidance was “so faulty and ambiguous that it allowed unscrupulous people to exploit a broken system in a way that led to tragedy.”“I think that if you look at what happened to Grenfell, t

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