Well, well, well. This - from Paul Hyett's report - is a pretty devastating conclusion for government. 
By way of explanation - the government has argued since the fire that its guidance was not to blame for Grenfell and the wider cladding crisis because it did not permit Class 0 cladding. Many in the industry have vociferously argued the opposite.
Hyett (the inquiry's architectural expert) has concluded firmly that Approved Document B did in fact permit Class 0. If he's correct, it would mean the govt has been misleading everyone about its own culpability since Grenfell. (Other experts have taken different positions)
Important to say - this isn't a challenge to the conclusion from Phase One that the 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 was not compliant with the regulations for reasons which I can't explain without turning this into another 80 tweet thread
Also important to say that the government issued a 'clarification' that Class 0 was not the required standard for cladding a mere eight days after the fire and has clung to it ever since. They were warned on multiple occassions to toughen this standard and didn't.
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