Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Theresa May visited Manchester the morning after the Arena bombing as prime minister, to offer comfort to those who had suffered and support to the emergency services who had responded.
But the public inquiry into the atrocity heard she left a meeting of fire and police chiefs without being told about the communications failures of the emergency services that night and nor of the two-hour delay in getting firefighters to the arena.
The then chief fire officer of Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, Peter O'Reilly, said it 'would have been inappropriate to start a public spat with others' and insisted he had wanted to come clean with the public in the
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