内容摘要：Brian Martin advised ministers on the part of the building regulation guidance that covered fire safety. Over the years, he was given a series of warnings about the use of combustible materials on high-rise residential buildings.

Brian Martin advised ministers on the part of the building regulation guidance that covered fire safety. Over the years, he was given a series of warnings about the use of combustible materials on high-rise residential buildings.

Mr Muir, who was tasked with hiring administration personnel as part of the 2016 Trump transition team, told the BBC his work was "essentially discarded" by the incoming White House at the time."They did not have a great idea about what they were supposed to be producing, or how to produce it," he said. "[Trump's] doing much better this time in terms of what he's getting out, getting it out efficiently, and knowing how it has to be enforced down through the agencies."

Trump's first day in office in 2017 was overshadowed by a briefing in which then-White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer lectured reporters on the size of the president's inauguration crowd.A week later, Trump controversially ordered that citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries - Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan and Libya - were banned from entering the US for 90 days, prompting chaos at airports. The order was blocked by a federal court and went through two more versions before it was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2018.Trump allies say they believe the new administration appears to have learned lessons from that early public defeat in 2017, as well as other legal battles the administration faced.

"They had four years in exile to prepare for a potential return," said Eric Ruark, director of research at NumbersUSA, an organisation that advocates for tighter immigration controls. "And now they have a plan that they can implement."The Trump team has "hit the ground running", particularly on the immigration agenda, said Mr Muir. On Inauguration Day alone that entailed declaring a national emergency at the southern border, deploying troops and quickly moving to arrest hundreds of undocumented migrants with criminal histories.

"That's partly because [new border czar] Tom Homan was there [in the first term], knows what went wrong and what went right, and now how to actually get things done," he said.

In Trump's first presidential term, many of his attempted reforms did not survive court challenges, often the victim of poor planning and execution from a team of political novices.Jeremy Corbyn’s suspension is precisely identified by Mr Rahman too as the first major showdown between different wings of the party under Keir Starmer.

Except, as someone who had been inspired by Mr Corbyn from the days of Stop the War protests in the lead-up to the UK-backed invasion of Iraq in 2003, Mr Rahman was on the other side, saying that was the moment when the alarm bells started ringing for him that the party leaders were not safeguarding the values he believed in.Mr Rahman does not see the party’s anti-Muslim slant as being limited to its response to events in Gaza. He does not question there have been serious cases of antisemitism but does not believe all accusations of racism are treated equally.

“There is a clear hierarchy of racism in the Labour Party. Some instances of racism, including Islamophobia, aren't taken as seriously as they should,” he says.Mr Rahman cites the case of Trevor Phillips, the former chair of the EHRC, who was suspended for alleged Islamophobia.