{"id":139500,"date":"2018-06-11T11:32:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T11:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/grenfell-tower-theresa-may-will-always-regret-her-reaction\/"},"modified":"2018-06-11T11:32:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T11:32:50","slug":"grenfell-tower-theresa-may-will-always-regret-her-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/grenfell-tower-theresa-may-will-always-regret-her-reaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Grenfell Tower: Theresa May will &#8216;always regret&#8217; her reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pictures of victims of the Grenfell Tower fire\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/1375B\/production\/_101970797_hi046800658.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Getty Images                                                    <\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Prime Minister Theresa May has said she will &quot;always regret&quot; not meeting the residents of Grenfell Tower in the immediate aftermath of the disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in the Evening Standard, Mrs May said she understood her actions may have made it appear she &quot;didn&#039;t care&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of Thursday&#039;s one-year anniversary, she said she wanted to make clear that was &quot;never the case&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 72 people died as a result of the blaze, the judge-led inquiry into the fire has said. <\/p>\n<p>This includes Maria Del Pilar Burton, 74, who died in January. She had been in hospital since she was rescued from the 19th floor.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs May said it was &quot;clear&quot; that the initial response to the disaster was &quot;not good enough&quot;, adding: &quot;I include myself in that.&quot;  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What happened at Grenfell Tower?<\/li>\n<li>Grenfell Tower fire: Who were the victims?<\/li>\n<li>The terrible speed with which the Grenfell fire spread<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Getty Images<figcaption>Image caption                                      Theresa May visited Grenfell Tower the day after the fire but did not meet survivors                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She continued: &quot;What I did not do on that first visit was meet the residents and survivors who had escaped the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But the residents of Grenfell Tower needed to know that those in power recognised and understood their despair. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;And I will always regret that by not meeting them that day, it seemed as though I didn&#039;t care.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images Prime Minister Theresa May has said she will &quot;always regret&quot; not meeting the residents of Grenfell Tower in the immediate aftermath of the disaster. Writing in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}