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

THE remains of Grenfell Tower volition beryllium demolished implicit the adjacent 2 years, Housing Secretary Angela Rayner has announced.

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

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

But Ms Rayner yesterday insisted engineers could not find a harmless mode to support it standing.

She said parts of the artifact could beryllium utilized to physique a caller memorial.

Survivors accused her of “ignoring the voices of the bereaved” pursuing a gathering astir the tower’s aboriginal past week.

The Grenfell United campaign radical said nary 1 supported demolition.

But defending the decision, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing said: “Engineers besides counsel it is not practicable to clasp galore of the floors of the gathering successful spot arsenic portion of a memorial that indispensable past successful perpetuity.

“Taking the engineering proposal into relationship the Deputy Prime Minister concluded that it would not beryllium just to support immoderate floors of the gathering that are important to immoderate families, whilst not being capable to bash truthful for others and knowing that, for some, this would beryllium profoundly upsetting.”