HOUSING minister Alok Sharma gave an emotional vow to ensure the Grenfell tragedy is not repeated in Parliament.
The Reading West frontbench MP was visibly stirred as he spoke of his time with the victims of the tower fire.
Mr Sharma was elected into the ministerial role a matter of hours before the blaze ripped through the 24-storey block.
He said: "Hearing the harrowing accounts of survivors has been the most humbling and moving experience of my life.
"The families that I have met have been through unimaginable pain.
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"This is a tragedy that should never have happened.
"We are determined to make sure that something like this happens ever again."
Just 14 families have been housed since the tragedy and a further 158 are still in need of accommodation more than three weeks after the devastating inferno.
Nicholas Paget-Brown, resigned as lead of the Conservative group under pressure from the mayor of London and Elizabeth Campbell was elected as his replacement on Monday.
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