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Grenfell Tower fire: Government staff sent in to Kensington and Chelsea Council

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Government staff have been drafted in to accelerate a central response to a Grenfell Tower disaster in west London.
Government staff have been drafted in to accelerate a central response to a Grenfell Tower disaster in west London.
The pierce follows widespread critique of a internal council’s performance.
Residents cursed a service bid as “absolute chaos” and complained that Kensington and Chelsea Council had supposing small support or information.
Councils opposite London are now endangered in a operation, with charitable assistance being supposing by a west London precinct of Ealing.
Kensington and Chelsea Council pronounced it would concur “in full” with a government’s exploration into a fire, in that during slightest 58 people are believed to have died.
Many have been left homeless by a large glow that engulfed a 24-storey retard of flats on Wednesday.
Police fear a series of a passed could increase. The BBC understands a genocide fee could arise to about 70 people in total.
As partial of a new pierce by a government, a group of polite servants has been embedded into a legislature office.
Other measures summarized by a primary apportion following a assembly with residents on Saturday, enclosed some-more staff covering phone lines and belligerent staff wearing high-visibility wardrobe so they could be simply found. At a scene By BBC reporter, Mark Lobel
The residents here are now revelation us a volunteers are during violation point.
There are approaching to be supervision polite servants down here, on a ground, assisting out.
Whether they are in hi-vis jackets or either they are meant to be replacing a volunteers, there has been no pointer of them so far.
I’ ve been vocalization to residents, vocalization to people who’ ve been here all morning, I’ ve been vocalization to a military and they haven’ t beheld a change yet.
The Home Office pronounced it was making arrangements for a family of polite engineering Mohammed Alhajali, who died in a fire, to transport from Syria to a UK for his funeral.
Questions continue to be asked about because a glow widespread so quickly, with some suggesting new cladding propitious during a new refurbishment could have been to blame.
Chancellor Philip Hammond pronounced a rapist review would inspect either building regulations had been breached when a retard was overhauled.
The open exploration set adult by a supervision following a tragedy would also inspect if manners had been broken, he told BBC’s Andrew Marr Show.
Asked either a supervision had revised building regulations, as endorsed by a coroner, following another lethal glow in south London building retard in 2009, Mr Hammond pronounced a government had responded “correctly and appropriately” to a recommendations.
He pronounced if a open exploration found something indispensable to be finished to make buildings safe, it would be done, he added.
Asked about his council’s bad response, personality Nicholas Paget-Brown pronounced staff were “working closely” with a government, charities, proffer and proprietor groups and a puncture services to assistance re-house and support those affected.
“People righteously have questions about a causes of a glow and because it widespread so fast and these will be answered, ” he said.
Labour personality Jeremy Corbyn told ITV’s Peston on Sunday that a legislature seemed to “lack a resources to understanding with a predicament of this magnitude”, notwithstanding being a country’s “wealthiest borough”. ‘Suspicion’
Meanwhile, Labour MP David Lammy, whose crony Khadija Saye is among a dead, has called for obligatory movement to make certain all papers relating to a refurbishment and supervision of a Grenfell Tower glow are protected.
After vocalization to residents, he said: “Suspicion of a cover is rising.
“We need to make certain that a emails, mins of meetings, association with contractors, reserve assessments, specifications and reports are not destroyed, ” he added.
Theresa May has also come in for a fusillade of critique over her possess response to a disaster.
On Friday, she was jeered on a revisit to a North Kensington estate, and protesters marching on Friday and Saturday called for her resignation.
First Secretary of State Damian Green shielded a primary minister, observant she was as “distraught as we all are”.
So distant in a investigation:
The glow pennyless out during a building block, that contained 120 one and two-bedroom flats, shortly before 01: 00 BST on Wednesday.
It tore by all floors of a building and took some-more than 200 firefighters 24 hours to move underneath control.
Two beside Tube lines are partly dangling until 14: 00 BST on Sunday amid reserve concerns of waste descending on to a tracks.
The Hammersmith and City Line has been dangling between Edgware Road and Hammersmith, and a Circle Line is also closed, Transport for London said.
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