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Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary Angela Rayner has defended her meeting with families and survivors of Grenfell, after some present said they felt ignored by the decision to tear the tower down.
Grenfell Tower will be “carefully” demolished in a process likely to take two years, it has been confirmed.
The tower will be brought down to ground level, with some parts returned where possible to be included in a memorial “if the community wishes”.
The Government has officially announced the west London block’s future, having been met with criticism from some bereaved and survivors of the 2017 fire following a private meeting earlier this week.
Ms Rayner has told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg she does not feel she was “aggressive” during the meeting and that she had taken part in multiple meetings with different families and community groups during the consultation phase.
“I felt, weighing up all of the different conversations that I had, and the engineering report, that actually the only way forward really was to sensitively make sure that we start taking the tower to ground level, but that we have a lasting memorial on that site,” she told the programme.
She said she was determined to work with the families to develop a “lasting memorial” to “do justice to what is a sacred place”.