In the fall-out from last week’s devastating report on the Grenfell report, it seems one question has not been asked of the various Labour spokesmen out on the airwaves. In a 1,700-page report that apportioned blame for the 2017 tragedy widely, retired Court of Appeal judge Sir Martin Moore-Bick spared no one in his excoriating judgements. Ministers, officials and the cladding companies were all lacerated for the disaster which claimed the lives of 72 people.
Such findings must have come as a surprise to the man who is now our Foreign Secretary, David Lammy. As Dominic Lawson notes in today’s Daily Mail, Lammy’s reaction to the appointment of this distinguished judge in July 2017 was to trash his integrity. Sir Martin Moore-Bick is an ex-grammar school boy and the son of a dairyman: hardly a scion of the establishment. But that didn’t stop Lammy from suggesting that this ‘white, upper-middle class man’ should not have been trusted with the job, declaring
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