This week, Emma Dent Coad, the Labour MP for Kensington, called for Sir Martin Moore-Bick to be replaced as head of the Grenfell Tower inquiry. The reason? He does not ‘understand human beings’.
Happily, her appearance on the Sunday Politics this morning presented an opportunity for Dent Coad to elaborate on her comments. Yet aside from the well reported ruling Moore-Bick made in a housing case in 2014, Dent Coad did not seem to have that much evidence for her claim. In fact, in the interview with Andrew Neil, it soon transpired that she hadn’t actually met the judge:
AN: This judge leading the Grenfell inquiry, have you met him?
EDC: I haven’t met him, no.
AN: So what evidence do you have that he doesn’t, in your words, understand human beings?
EDC: Well, I’m reflecting what people are telling me out there.
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