After Grenfell tower fire, UK asks: Has deregulation gone too far?
Simon Tilford, an economist and deputy director of the Centre for European Reform, said: “We’re seeing the biggest challenge to this 40-year drive to marginalize or discredit the state and its role in the economy and society. Grenfell Tower had such impact because it symbolizes for many in Britain the retreat of the state, visible in badly maintained social housing and the failure to build more social housing.”