Writing in The Times a month later, Conservative Party peer Daniel Finkelstein cited these events as reason to support the Human Rights Act. Comparing Corbyn to the former Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, he argued that this was 'exactly the reason we have human rights protection' – so people can 'secure their individual liberty – in this case their right to property – when the popular will is against them'. For this wealthy lord, human rights were not for Grenfell's survivors, among them undocumented migrants who, as Hannah Arendt noted long ago, should have been the exemplary subjects of human rights. Rather, human rights were necessary to protect a weak minority, Kensington's absent property-owners, from the passions of the masses.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 4