Family handout Nick Burton was rescued from the 19th floor of Grenfell Tower with his wife of 30 years, Pily. Soon after she suffered a stroke and when she died became the 72nd victim of the fire. He says it was important for him to go to Arconic's Pittsburgh headquarters. "For all these years they're going about their business making record profits," he says. "We wanted to give them a wake-up call and show them we are still here."
I hope that coming out of the Grenfell tragedy, we can erase that sense. There were a group of people whose very housing meant that they were in some sense second class to others.
"The process has been painful and really long, and residents are suffering through living in a building site. The promise of a 21st-century model estate is highly unlikely."
The trust is broken in the Met Police and the systems. Now they want to build a tower and on and on it goes. The Grenfell Tower fire was the culmination of decades of failure by central government and the construction industry.
