Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick also warned the US not to interfere, saying the Tate brothers "must face our justice system".
Arconic received their certificate by only providing the results of the successful test on the flat panels, not the failed test on the cassettes.At the public inquiry, Claude Schmidt, the managing director of the company’s French office, accepted this could be seen as a “misleading half-truth”, but denied information was deliberately withheld.
Arconic told us it acknowledges the part it played in supplying a material involved in the fire. But it says responsibility for fire safety compliance does not rest with it as the supplier, but with those who selected it for use.Ed Daffarn moved into Grenfell in 2001. In the following decade he describes the building falling into a period of managed decline.He welcomed the idea of a multi-million pound refurbishment.
The initial design work was given to Studio E, architects who had worked on a nearby school and leisure centre.Only they had never clad a high-rise building before. A competitive process legally required for large expensive projects was avoided because Studio E deliberately deferred part of their fee - bringing down the upfront costs.
At a meeting with the Tenant Management Organisation that ran the building on behalf of the local council, Ed Daffarn asked if the architects had experience with tower blocks and if not: “Why are we using them?”
He says he never received an answer."We heard that ICE came to a building not far from me," said Carlos, whose son is a US citizen born in New York.
Like Gabriela, Carlos was initially cautiously optimistic about Trump's electoral win and thought he would indirectly benefit from Trump's promises to boost the economy and lower inflation."It's scary. I've been avoiding being out on the street more than I need to," he added. "I don't have a problem with criminals being arrested. But we keep hearing that other people - workers - are also being taken away."
Both Gabriela and Carlos asked to be identified only by their first names, fearing retribution or attention from authorities.It is unclear how many of those arrested have criminal histories and how many are what have been what the first Trump administration termed "collateral" arrests.