A member of the Grenfell community has said she decided to run for a seat in the local council after watching its “chilling” response to the fire.
Claire Simmons, an academic who lives on Lancaster Road, was elected to Kensington and Chelsea Council as a Labour councillor for the Notting Dale ward, which includes Grenfell Tower, at this year’s poll in May.
Ms Simmons said she felt a “sense of the duty” in the aftermath of the 2017 disaster, which caused the death of 72 people.
In an interview with the PA news agency ahead of the fifth anniversary on Tuesday, Ms Simmons said: “Everything that I have seen not just from the council (but) from the Government, from other agencies that were supposed to be caring for us.
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