Theresa May has a lot on her plate this week. As well as today’s crunch Brexit Cabinet away day, she is facing a Tory backlash over her university funding review and working to stave off a rebellion on the customs union. Now she has another problem to deal with: Stormzy.
Yes, the Prime Minister has awoken to find herself in a full-blown row with Stormzy. The grime artist – and Corbynista – used a performance at last night’s Brit Awards to accuse the Prime Minister of turning her back on the Grenfell fire victims: ‘Theresa May, where’s the money for Grenfell?’ He went on to accuse the government of forgetting about Grenfell – ‘you criminals, and you got the cheek to call us savages, you should do some jail time, you should pay some damages, we should burn your house down and see if you can manage this.’
In a lobby briefing today, the Prime Minister’s spokesman insisted that May is ‘absolutely committed’ to support for survivors and set up an inquiry not just to look at what happened but to find out why ‘people were ignored for so many years’.
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