'Justice has not been delivered': Grenfell United's statement in full

Grenfell United, who represent the survivors and bereaved families of the Grenfell Tower fire, has said "justice has not been delivered" in response to the long-awaited inquiry report.

It said the "system was built" for governments to avoid their responsibilities to keep people safe.

Here is the full statement published by Grenfell United:

"Today marks the conclusion of a painful six years listening to the evidence of the deaths of 54 adults and 18 children, our loved ones, neighbours and friends. It is a significant chapter in the journey to truth, justice and change.

"But justice has not been delivered. The inquiry report reveals that whenever there's a clash between corporate interest and public safety, governments have done everything they can to avoid their responsibilities to keep people safe. The system isn’t broken, it was built this way.

"It speaks to a lack of competence, understanding and a fundamental failure to perform the most basic of duties of care.

"The recommendations published today are basic safety principles that should already exist,highlighting how the government’s roles, duties and obligations have been hollowed out by privatisation.

"Where voids were created as the government outsourced their duties, Kingspan, Celotex and Arconic filled the gaps with substandard and combustible materials.

"They were allowed to manipulate the testing regimes, fraudulently and knowingly marketing their products as safe.

"Sir Martin Moore-Bick has laid bare his mistrust in the building industry - no single publication like approved document B should subsequently be used as a means to regulate fire safety and to keep the public safe.

"The government knew this was no way to regulate. It was there to be exploited.

"Our lawyers told the Inquiry that the corporate core participants - Arconic, Kingspan and Celotex - were "little better than crooks and killers". The report makes clear that this statement is entirely true.

"We were failed in most cases by incompetence and in many cases by calculated dishonesty and greed.

"The duty of government should be to safeguard life, whilst protecting us from corporate greed. But for too long, they have aided corporations, facilitating them to profit and dictate regulation.

"It is a damning indictment of this country that amateurs (like Carl Stokes and Brian Martin) can pose to be experts, putting countless lives at risk and taking the lives of our loved ones."

"There’s a reading of the inquiry hiding in plain sight that speaks to both the damage done to Grenfell Tower and the wider damage done to Britain.

"It’s a serious problem for the whole country when governments invite corporations to write their own rules.

"The government must now exert control over the sector to prevent further dismantling of public safety, which used to be understood as their primary job, not aiding and abetting crooks and killers.

"To prevent a future Grenfell, the government needs to create something that doesn’t exist: a government with the power and ability to separate itself from the construction industry and corporate lobbying, putting people before profit.

"Over and above all, the judge concludes what we already knew, that every single loss of life was avoidable.

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"We expect this government to break old habits and implement all of the recommendations made by Sir Martin Moore Bick from the Inquiry report without further delay, because the time to address this is already three decades too late.

"We are calling on the government to ban Arconic, Kingspan, Celotex and Rydon from central or local government procurement processes. And finally start acting in the British public’s interest.

"We have an expectation that the Met Police and the CPS ensure that those who are truly responsible are held to account and brought to justice.

"We must never forget that at the heart of this Inquiry report is the fact that 72 people lost their lives."

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