Grenfell group threatens to boycott inquiry if judge is not changed

‘Survivors of the Grenfell Fire will boycott the public inquiry into the disaster unless the judge who has been chosen to lead it is removed, the group representing them has said.
The current proposals are for the inquiry to look at how the fire started and how it developed so rapidly, but calls have been made for the investigation to be broadened.
Retired judge Sir Martin Moore-Bick, who specialised in commercial law in a legal career spanning nearly 50 years, will look into the blaze which killed at least 80 people in west London last month.
But a co-ordinator for the Justice 4 Grenfell group has now told The Telegraph that they would not take part in the inquiry unless the scope is widened and Sir Martin is removed.
It came as one Labour MP questioned why Sir Martin had been appointed in the first place as a “white, upper-middle class man” who has “never” visited a tower block.’
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