Britain Aims to Ban Companies Linked to Grenfell Fire

Britain plans to ban companies implicated in the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire from receiving government contracts. Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that the government would notify these companies as a first step in preventing them from being awarded future contracts. The move follows findings from a public inquiry.

Britain will seek to ban companies found by a public inquiry to be culpable for the deadly 2017 Grenfell Tower fire from being awarded government contracts, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Wednesday.

"This government will write to all companies found by the inquiry to have been part of these horrific failings as the first step to stopping them being awarded government contracts," he told parliament.

The announcement comes as a consequence of an ongoing public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire, which claimed dozens of lives and highlighted severe safety failures.

(With inputs from agencies.)