Angela Rayner reveals she took advice from NHS trauma specialists ahead of Grenfell demolition meeting

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Angela Rayner has told LBC that that she took advice from NHS trauma specialists ahead of her meeting with Grenfell families and survivors over the demolition of the tower.

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00:00I knew it was going to be a really difficult meeting and you know the

00:03Secretary of State's before me have not made decisions on the tower and I think

00:09some of that is because it's really difficult and I know it was going to be

00:12very traumatic to the people. I took advice from trauma specialists at the

00:17NHS there with me to try and give the clear information and to do it in a way

00:24that was as as less traumatic as it could be but it was always it was always

00:29going to be a really horrible difficult decision. And I knew Andrew that there was not a

00:34consensus because I'd consulted and spoke to many different people the

00:37bereaved I spoke to survivors I spoke to the local headteachers of the schools

00:41there where the children are still traumatized every day as they're walking

00:45around the tower I spoke to the community and I knew there wasn't a

00:50consensus I knew it was going to be really difficult but I also knew that

00:53had the engineering advice as well and on top of the views that I got and the

00:58engineering advice I knew that the only decision to make really was that the

01:01tower had to come down.

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