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Re: Huge fire at West London tower block
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Originally Posted by Pierre
There are only 3 words that jump out to me from that snippet.
and they are
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Those 3 words are further expanded upon in the article
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When prime minister David Cameron’s coalition government embarked on a drive to cut red tape, it dominated the department’s thinking at the expense of safety issues, which were “ignored, delayed or disregarded”.
Pickles, who served as secretary of state in the department from 2010 to 2015, was described as an “ardent supporter” of deregulation. Civil servants felt pressure to cut red tape and building officials felt unable to refer concerns.
Pickles gave evidence to the inquiry that he would have thought it “ludicrous” that officials believed that deregulation applied to building regulations. But Moore-Bick concluded that he had been “unable to accept his evidence on that question” after it was flatly contradicted by his own officials and documents.
A succession of ministers and officials failed to foster a culture in which concerns about serious risks could be raised, which was a “serious failure of leadership”.
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