“I think what I tried to do is take a really difficult meeting and explain to people, and make sure that those that were bereaved had that information, and the survivors had that information before the decision was made public.”.
Housing minister Matthew Pennycook said it was not “fair” to suggest Ms Rayner’s manner made survivors and bereaved “feel that she wasn’t really paying attention to them”.
Angela Rayner has denied being “aggressive” during a meeting of the Grenfell bereaved and survivors when informing them about the decision to dismantle the tower.
It was put to Ms Rayner that the BBC was told the meeting was a “car crash” and that a survivor suggested the Deputy Prime Minister was “defensive, even aggressive”.
He told Sky News’s Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips programme: “I understand why the bereaved, survivors, the community are frustrated about the pace of change in this area, the lack of justice that they’ve been given.
