Downing Street Scrambles To Spin PM’s Grenfell Panel Appointment

The credibility of the Grenfell Inquiry has taken a hit with a key member of its panel exposed as having links to the company that made the tower’s cladding. Downing Street is scrambling to spin the Cabinet Office backed Prime Ministerial appointment of Benita Mehra to the panel after it emerged that Mehra was previously president of a charity that received a £71,000 donation from the philanthropic arm of Arconic – the US firm that made the panels found to be the main cause of fire spread. Already, Boris Johnson has had to concede to an investigation of the appointment. Read more on 24housing.

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