Hundreds of people marched from Kensington town hall toward the gutted tower on Friday evening, some brandishing Socialist Worker Party placards emblazoned with slogans including "Defy Tory Rule" and "no justice, no peace" and 'the rich, the rich, we've got to get the rich'.
She faced cries of "coward" and "shame on you" as she left under heavy police escort, and police broke up a scuffle among the crowd as her vehicle drove off. "The Grenfell Action group firmly believe that only a catastrophic event will expose the ineptitude and incompetence of our landlord, the KCTMO (Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Office), and bring an end to the risky living conditions and neglect of health and safety legislation that they inflict on tenants and leaseholders".
In addition to debate over the cladding, questions have also been raised over why there was no sprinkler system in the Grenfell Tower which could have helped stop the fire spreading, or any central smoke alarm system that would have woken sleeping residents. "We entirely support the calling of the public inquiry and will cooperate in whatever way we can with it so that local people have all the answers about what has happened", the council, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, said.
Very early in the morning on Wednesday, a fire erupted in high rise apartment building Grenfell Tower in West London.
'I saw the fire engines arrive and I grabbed a fire axe and ran around the building to find a fire exit, ' he says. She also suggested she did not want to distract the police and other authorities from their work that's why she stayed away from the site, according to report by Bloomberg. The Times said the recently refurbished tower block had been fitted with cladding that wasn't fireproof, and that for less than $6,400 (5,000 pounds), a fire resistant version could have been used instead.
The displays of anger increased pressure on Theresa May over her response to the disaster.
Emergency services are to spend a third day searching for bodies in the burnt-out Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, where they were called to reports of a fire in the early hours of Wednesday.
The area surrounding the council-owned tower has been plastered by desperate relatives with pictures of the missing, from grandparents to young children, and large numbers of volunteers were assisting survivors.
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Firefighters were using drones and sniffer dogs to search the blackened tower, as some of the upper floors have not yet been made safe. The Metropolitan Police announced that over 70 people are still missing, and said that it is unlikely that there will be any more survivors.
A fatal fire at a high-rise building in London, England captured the world's attention, as heartbreaking images and stories emerged of victims and their loved ones.
"We are not stupid, we're aware people are dead". Witnesses said the blaze tore through the high-rise's exterior cladding within minutes and seemed to offer a path for it to leap from floor to floor. British health authorities say that 19 patients are still being treated at four London hospitals.
The fire forced residents to flee through black smoke down the single stairwell, jump out of windows or even drop their children from the building.
It came as a second victim of the disaster was named as 24-year-old artist Khadija Saye.
Amongst the dead was artist Khadija Saye, whose photography is now being exhibited at the Vienna Biennale.
Officials said Friday they are doing everything they can to relocate those displaced by the tower.
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