Fury as Angela Rayner announces Grenfell Tower will be demolished over course of next 2 years

THE remains of Grenfell Tower will be demolished over the next two years, Housing Secretary Angela Rayner has announced.

She caused outrage by confirming plans to pull down the fire-ravaged West London block.

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Some bereaved relatives and survivors of the 2017 horror, which claimed 72 lives, wanted its remains left as a memorial.

But Ms Rayner yesterday insisted engineers could not find a safe way to keep it standing.

She said parts of the block could be used to build a new memorial.

Survivors accused her of “ignoring the voices of the bereaved” following a meeting about the tower’s future last week.

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The Grenfell United campaign group said no one supported demolition.

But defending the decision, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing said: “Engineers also advise it is not practicable to retain many of the floors of the building in place as part of a memorial that must last in perpetuity.

“Taking the engineering advice into account the Deputy Prime Minister concluded that it would not be fair to keep some floors of the building that are significant to some families, whilst not being able to do so for others and knowing that, for some, this would be deeply upsetting.”

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