Angela Rayner had been accused of "ignoring" the voices of people who lost family in the fire in June 2017, which killed 72 people. In its announcement, the government said it would take two years for the tower to be taken down.

The U.K. government on Friday announced plans to dismantle the remains of London’s Grenfell Tower, almost eight years after the deadliest fire in Britain since World War II swept through the high-rise apartment building,

Survivors and bereaved families’ groups said Britain’s deputy prime minister had told them that the site of the 2017 catastrophe would be dismantled.