This kind of cost cutting and failure to put safety as a priority would never have been possible in luxury developments. Even if the authorities have irresponsibly failed in its duties, with the result that unsafe materials are not banned by building regulations, no such development would ever have cut safety standards to that bare legal minimum.

In that sense, this was indeed a class issue.

Kicking all this into the long grass with the kind of public inquiry designed to last for years before reporting is inadequate. Theresa May knows she will be well out of it by the time it reports. And yet she stonewalls every time, and never admits even a shred of resoonsibility. You can't even call it shamefaced, but she never indicates any kind of shame. I wonder what her vicar father would have thought of her.