The former prime minister tells the Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge that no matter how effective a country's systems are, 'people are going to make mistakes'.
Sir Tony Blair has warned that tragedies such as the Grenfell Tower fire cannot be completely avoided. The former prime minister, who left office in 2007, said it was a 'difficult thing to say', but that even when systems work well and are 'well intentioned', people are 'going to make mistakes'.
' Sir Tony was speaking just a day after a landmark report into the tragedy by Grenfell Inquiry chair Sir Martin Moore-Bick concluded the government was 'well aware' of the deadly risks posed by combustible cladding and insulation a year before the fire broke out but 'failed to act on what it knew'. Seventy-two people died after flames engulfed the 24-storey tower block in Latimer Road, west London, on 14 June 2017.
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