Theresa May rejects petition to diversify Grenfell fire inquiry panel

The Prime Minister has rejected a petition from survivors and bereaved relatives of the Grenfell Tower fire to diversify the public inquiry into the disaster.Last week during two days of procedural hearings, lawyers for those most closely affected by the tragedy argued that an ethnically diverse panel of experts was needed to sit alongside the inquiry chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick.On Friday, Theresa May said that additional panel members should not be appointed in order for the first stage of t