Steve McQueen voices ‘dismay’ after MPs snub Grenfell Tower film invitation

Award-winning British artist says lack of politicians’ response to attend a screening speaks volumes about ‘what is happening in this country’

One of Britain’s leading film and television directors, the award-winning artist Steve McQueen, has expressed his dismay at the lack of response by politicians to his film Grenfell, a powerful visual statement on the devastating London fire of 2017. The UK’s political class has, he says, largely avoided coming to watch it.

“Their silence says a lot about what is happening in this country. If MPs are turning their backs on something like this film, what does it mean?” McQueen told the Observer.