An act of “social murder”

The true causes of the Grenfell Tower disaster lie in the way Britain is run. Matthew Partridge reports.

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Protesters demand an enquiry into the disaster
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There is a "very strong emerging narrative: that Jeremy Corbyn got it right by turning up and sharing the grief of the victims" in the Grenfell Tower disaster, says Ross Clark in The Spectator. Conversely, "Theresa May got it horribly wrong by restricting her visit to contact with the emergency services". But I'm not sure I agree. Corbyn "may already have overplayed his hand" by trying to "turn the tragedy into a morality play about rich and poor". Take his call for "properties of absentee property owners to be requisitioned in order to rehouse survivors of the fire".

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Dr Matthew Partridge
Shares editor, MoneyWeek

Matthew graduated from the University of Durham in 2004; he then gained an MSc, followed by a PhD at the London School of Economics.

He has previously written for a wide range of publications, including the Guardian and the Economist, and also helped to run a newsletter on terrorism. He has spent time at Lehman Brothers, Citigroup and the consultancy Lombard Street Research.

Matthew is the author of Superinvestors: Lessons from the greatest investors in history, published by Harriman House, which has been translated into several languages. His second book, Investing Explained: The Accessible Guide to Building an Investment Portfolio, is published by Kogan Page.

As senior writer, he writes the shares and politics & economics pages, as well as weekly Blowing It and Great Frauds in History columns He also writes a fortnightly reviews page and trading tips, as well as regular cover stories and multi-page investment focus features.

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