A FEW weeks have now passed since the Grenfell Tower tragedy and the anger at the response has continued to grow.

In a fair point a couple of weeks ago I looked at the aftermath of the tragedy and wrote that everyone should do everything to ensure something like this could never happen again.

But what made it worse for the survivors of this tragedy was that the response was headed by exhausted volunteers and Londoners.

The authorities were nowhere to be seen.

Since then the mistrust of those authorities has only continued, further compounded by some of the decisions taken.

The perfect example of this was the farcical scenes at a Kensington council meeting last week.

Councillors, residents and open justice campaigners were astonished and disgusted when Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea leader Nicholas Paget-Brown claimed the presence of reporters would prejudice the public inquiry into the blaze, ending the cabinet meeting.

Leading legal experts later said the decision - apparently taken on advice - was a nonsense, pointing out a judge heading an inquiry could not be influenced by the meeting.

Remember this was a meeting survivors and victims families had hoped would be part of the process of getting the answers they need, and the help.

The leader later stepped down, but the damage had been done.

The chaotic scenes had come at the same time that the judge chairing the inquiry, Sir Martin Moore-Bick, had angered residents as within hours of his appointment he said he was doubtful his inquiry would satisfy them, as the scope of his inquiry would be limited.

This news came after survivors and victims’ families initial concerns that the inquiry could take years as previous inquiries have done.

And yesterday it emerged that lawyers for the victim’s families, and Labour’s Kensington MP Emma Dent, were now calling for Sir Moore-Bick to stand down as he lacked credibility.

Their frustration and anger has been building after all this, and is totally understandable.

The only hope now is public pressure can turn this round, no more mistakes will be made, and lessons can be learned quickly.