Listen again: John Healey wouldn't use the word murderpublished at 12:43 British Summer Time 26 June 2017
Today Programme
BBC Radio 4
Labour's Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has said the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire “were murdered by political decisions that were taken over recent decades”.
John Healey, the former shadow housing secretary, says he would not use the word "murder" because it is "not yet possible to direct cause and effect".
However, he says he agrees with his colleague that there is "a run down of social housing" a "cut in the capacity of councils and emergency services" and "resistance to any fresh regulation when it's needed".