Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has been slammed over comments made following the Grenfell inquiry report.
Speaking on LBC to Nick Ferrari, the Tory MP suggested those who died in Grenfell tower lacked common sense and should have defied fire brigade's advice.
Critics and families of the victims have demanded Rees-Mogg apologises after saying: "If you just ignore what you're told and leave you are so much safer"
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He said: "I think the tragedy came about because of the cladding, leading to the fire racing up the building, and then was compounded by the 'Stay Put' policy.
"The more one reads over the weekend about the report and about the chances of people surviving, if you just ignore what you're told and leave you are so much safer.
"And I think if either of us were in a fire, whatever the fire brigade said, we would leave the burning building. It just seems the common sense thing to do. And it is such a tragedy that that didn't happen."
He added: "Nobody was evil in relation to this great tragedy, but people made mistakes.
"And humanity makes mistakes and sometimes they have deeply tragic consequences. But it wasn't done because people had chips on their shoulder or they were bad people, they just got something terribly, terribly wrong."
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Ahmet Chellat, 62, who lost relatives in the blaze that killed a total of 72 people, told the Mirror that Rees-Mogg had to apologise for his comments. He said: "He has got to apologise. Who is going to challenge this man over saying this? What common sense is he talking about?"
Another victim support group Grenfell United described the comments as 'extremely painful' and 'beyond disrespectful'.
Last week a report from the Grenfell Inquiry condemned fire chiefs' refusal to evacuate the burning building as it was revealed 55 of the 72 people who died in the fire were told to remain in their flats.
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