‘It’s corporate MANSLAUGHTER!’ MP David Lammy calls for arrests over Grenfell Tower fire
A LABOUR MP has described the Grenfell Tower inferno as “corporate manslaughter” as at least 17 people were killed and 78 injured during the fire.
By DARREN HUNT AND AJAY NAIR
Express.co.uk
Thu, Jun 15, 2017
David Lammy, the Tottenham MP described the fire as “corporate manslaughter” as he criticised the country for the way citizens have been treated.
Speaking on Radio 4’s Today programme, the Labour MP insisted that tower blocks, similar to Grenfell Tower, should have been demolished.
He said: “Many of us across the country have been caught up in an election, knocking on housing estate doors right across the country, travelling up to the top floors of tower blocks and we know as politicians that the conditions in this country are unacceptable.
“We built buildings in the 70s, those 70s buildings – many of them should be demolished.
“They haven’t got easy fire escapes, they’ve got no sprinklers, it’s totally, totally unacceptable in Britain that this is allowed to happen and people lose their lives in this way.
“People should be held to account.”
Mr Lammy said that he had “heard nothing” regarding a close friend of the family who lived in the Grenfell Tower block with her mother.
“We hope and pray that she is amongst them [in hospital] and not perished in that building as I suspect hundreds will have done by the end of this count,” he said.
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