There can be few official documents more upsetting than the section of last week’s Grenfell Tower Inquiry report that details the spread of the fire. Minute by minute, as the report documents the growing disaster, you’re painfully aware of the dozens of terrified people following official advice to remain in their homes, to wait for a rescue that is never going to come.
So Jacob Rees-Mogg’s comments on an LBC radio show earlier must rank as one of the most cack-handed things a senior politician has said in quite some time. “I think if either of us were in a fire, whatever the fire brigade said, we would leave the burning building,” he told host Nick Ferrari. “It just seems the common sense thing to do.”
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