Angela Rayner denies being ‘aggressive’ in ‘car crash’ meeting with Grenfell Tower families

The Independent

Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has rejected claims she was 'defensive' and 'aggressive' in a recent meeting with the bereaved families and survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire.

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00:00So I felt weighing up all of the different conversations that I had and the engineering

00:05report that actually the only way forward really was to sensitively make sure that we

00:12start taking away the tower to ground floor level.

00:16The whole situation here is very sensitive but some of those who were bereaved or survivors

00:21of the fire felt that this week when they met you that your behaviour in the meeting

00:28was very upsetting. One of them told us the government's ruined relationships with the

00:32families in half an hour, it was a car crash. Another survivor of the fire suggested that

00:38you were even defensive, even aggressive.

00:42Well I certainly don't feel like I was aggressive and if anyone felt that way then I would be

00:47sincerely upset about that. I think what I try to do is take a really difficult meeting

00:53and explain to people and make sure that those that were bereaved had that information and

00:58the survivors had that information before the decision was made public.

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