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Victims received less compensation than shareholders in the company behind its flammable cladding. Parliament must make corporations pay for harm causedThere is something profoundly wrong when the company behind Grenfell Tower’s flammable cladding paid more compensation to its shareholders than to victims of the disaster. Of Arconic’s £86m in Grenfell-related settlements, all but £1.5m was covered by insurers. Hardly enough to make a multinational think again. The company whose product the inqui

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