There's already a promised judicial inquiry into the Grenfell fire itself. Will be interesting to see where that goes. For understandable reasons victims/family and residents want to be involved in setting terms of reference and appointing chair, counsel and experts. In practice it could be problematic - see child abuse inquiry.
Now seems to be some sort of second issue, for same or another inquiry, as to how/why cladding that has 100% failure rate in tests came to be installed on hundreds of buildings. Guardian article explores some of issues:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/27/may-orders-national-inquiry-after-100-failure-rate-in-high-rise-cladding-tests
Need to understand more about the tests and how they're applied. The cladding industry reps, while understandably coy, are saying it's no good testing components in isolation when they're intended to work together as a system.
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