Hello and welcome to Inside Briefing, the podcast from the Institute for Government.

I'm Hannah White. So the usual cut and trust of politics took a backseat this week with the publication of the Grenfell Inquiry's final report.

It follows a seven-year public inquiry into a tragedy which killed 72 people.

The result says the report of decades of failure by central government and the systematic dishonesty of multi-million dollar companies.

We'll be discussing the report's findings

and what happens next. Elsewhere in Westminster, the focus has been on the public finances,

with various rows and disagreements dragging in Chancellor Rachel Reeves, Cabinet Secretary

Simon Case, and the cast of Conservative leadership contenders. We'll take a look.

And then we'll be turning to some of the

questions we know our listeners love to ask. Who has served as a minister? Which roles have they held?

What dates were they in office? Well, all the answers can be found in the fantastic IFG ministers database,

which launched on our website this week. More of that later. I'm delighted that joining me throughout

our IFG senior fellow Joel Rutter. And I'm delighted that Sam Coates, Deputy Political Editor of

of Sky News, is back in the studio. Hello, Sam. Hello there. Okay. Let's turn to that Grenfell report.

Our Deputy Director, Emma Norris, our inquiry's expert also, joins us now.

Hi, Emma.

Hi.

Emma, can you start by giving us the key takeaways from the report?

Sure. So I think probably the biggest takeaway of all is the fact that the inquiry found that

all the deaths that occurred at the Grenfell Tower fire were avoidable. Those 72 people

shouldn't have died and if a range of organisations and authorities had acted differently, they

wouldn't have. And that is a really powerful and significant finding. Now, the inquiry goes on

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