THE public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire will aim to establish what issues will be examined within a matter of weeks.

A consultation period with victims and other parties about the scope of the probe is under way and is expected to wrap up by the parliamentary recess.

The move gives survivors concerned the process will be too narrow until July 20 to make their case to Sir Martin Moore-Bick that its parameters should widen.

Discontent has been brewing after the judge leading the inquiry suggested it will largely focus on the cause of the fire and how it could be prevented in future.

Campaigners warned a boycott could be afoot unless the systemic issues underlying the blaze becomes a central plank of concern.

At least 80 people died in the fire which broke out in the early hours of 14 June. An inquiry spokesman said: “The aim is to have [the terms of reference] done before Parliament rises on July 20.”

Sir Martin met with survivors and those who have had to move out of nearby homes on his first day in the role and will hold further meetings with other groups this week.

Labour MP David Lammy called for the retired Court of Appeal judge to forge closer links with victims so the process could maintain legitimacy in their eyes.

“He is a white, upper-middle class man who I suspect has never, ever visited a tower block housing estate and certainly hasn’t slept the night on the twentieth floor of one,” he told Sky News’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday.

“I hope he would do that in the days ahead.

“The job is not just to be independent and judicious — I am sure he is eminently legally qualified, of course he is — it is also to be empathetic and walk with these people on this journey.

“He needs to get close to those victims and survivors very, very quickly and establish he is after the truth and he is fearless and independent and won’t be swayed because he is part of the establishment.”

Yvette Williams, one of the organisers of the Justice 4 Grenfell campaign group, had earlier suggested their co-operation with the inquiry hung in the balance.

She told Sky News: “They cannot just look at 14 June, when that building became an inferno.

“If we don’t get good terms of reference for the public inquiry and we don’t get a wide remit so that those people can take responsibility for what they’ve done, then we won’t participate in it.”

Meanwhile, the future of troubled Kensington and Chelsea Council was also called into question as one of its councillors suggested the crisis could spell “the end” of the authority.

Leader of the opposition Labour group Robert Atkinson, who was locked in a heated confrontation with leader, Conservative Nicholas Paget-Brown last week, claimed ties with the community could be irreparable.

Both Paget-Brown and deputy Rock Feilding-Mellen quit their roles amid ongoing criticism of the council’s handling of the disaster.

Atkinson, who represents the ward in which Grenfell Tower is based, said: “I really think it could quite quickly be the end of the council altogether. I am not sure they have got the capacity or the will to rebuild themselves as an independent authority.”

Meanwhile, a couple who escaped the Grenfell Tower fire have revealed their child was stillborn shortly after they fled the building.

Marcio and Andreia Gomes and their two young daughters managed to escape from the 21st floor, but Marcio Gomes said his wife, who had been seven months’ pregnant, gave birth to a stillborn child as she lay unconscious hours after they escaped the building.

The 38-year-old told the Sunday Telegraph: “The doctors came and said the baby’s heart had stopped and the priority is the mother. My wife gave birth that night while she was in an induced coma so she didn’t know at the time. At 11.03 in the evening my baby boy was born.

“I was holding him, he looked peaceful, like a baby that was just sleeping. I wanted to be there with him but he had already died.”

The couple had decided on a name for the baby — Logan Isaac.