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.