ALT Image is a screenshot of the Financial Times article linked in the next post. The headline is white text on a black background and says: "Grenfell's £1.2bn legal legacy"

ALT Screenshot from Pete Apps' interview with Ed Daffarn. The text says: He has lost faith, however, in the willingness of the government to deliver further change.  “Every secretary of state comes into the meeting, looks us in the eye, shakes our hand, promises us that they’re going to be the ones that are going to deliver the change that the previous secretary of state hasn’t done. “And nine years on from the fire, we’re still in the same situation as we were. The present secretary of state [Steve Reed] is probably the worst that we’ve ever had, worse even than [Robert] Jenrick. It’s a low, low bar but it’s the truth,” he says (Mr Jenrick was Conservative housing secretary from July 2019 to September 2021, and has now defected to represent Reform).

ALT Screenshot from Pete Apps' interview with Ed Daffarn. The text says: Mr Daffarn says Grenfell United had a meeting with Mr Reed after he was appointed and set out the group’s three main requests: a national oversight mechanism to monitor inquiry and inquest recommendations relating to state death; the debarment of Grenfell-related companies from public contracts; and steps to clear court space for the forthcoming criminal trials relating to the fire. After hearing nothing for seven months, the group had to email to chase the housing secretary’s office for a response, Mr Daffarn says (see government response, below). “I think currently [the government has] lost the will to engage with bereaved and survivors. It’s all just about ‘build, baby, build’ and what house builders and big social landlords want now,” says Mr Daffarn.