“Unforgivable cowardice” Government won't allow company to criticise May over Grenfell Tower fire

Joe Mellor - 8 November 2018

A shocking article by The Times has claimed that WSP, engineering company, was warned not to create “adverse publicity” about the Cabinet Office or other Crown bodies (this includes May’s office)

The Times said WSP experts were hired after the Grenfell Tower tragedy on 14 June last year, which killed 72 people.

The contract reportedly stated WSP should ensure that neither it nor anyone working for it should “embarrass” or be “in any way connected to material adverse publicity” relating to the Cabinet Office or other Crown bodies.

Labour’s shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said the revelation of the terms of the contract was “shameful”.... See more


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