Government bears some blame for Grenfell fire, U.K. 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…

In June 2017, Grenfell Tower, a 23-story 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.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.

“I think that if you look at what happened to Grenfell, there were lots of factors. But yes, government collectively has to take some responsibility,” he separately told Sky News.Article content Following the blaze, a public inquiry found numerous faults in the planning and administration of the Grenfell refurbishment, and hundreds of buildings were found to have similar cladding.

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