FBU calls for quick action over Grenfell safety changes

A forum should be set up to make sure recommendations from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry report are implemented quickly and efficiently, the Fire Brigades Union has said.

The union called for an urgent meeting so that "sweeping changes" can be made to UK fire safety.

General secretary Matt Wrack said the fire in 2017, in which 72 people died, should be a "turning point" in UK fire safety.

Mr Wrack made the plea in a letter to the government and shadow cabinet, the London Fire Brigade, the National Fire Chiefs Council, the Mayor of London, the Local Government Association, the first ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, fire safety bodies and the Grenfell community.

He said that firefighters, tenants, government and fire safety and housing specialists must work together to ensure "the lessons to be learned from this first phase of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry are put into practice".