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Firefighters have called for 'direct action' against construction firms and companies that sell combustible cladding
Cladding is removed from Whitebeam Court, in Pendleton, Greater Manchester
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FIREFIGHTERS have called for “direct action” against construction firms and companies that sell combustible cladding.
FBU general secretary Matt Wrack criticised politicians for “endlessly” delaying investigations into Grenfell, telling delegates at the union’s Blackpool conference: “We need to point the finger where it belongs – at the Westminster politicians who have overseen decades of deregulation that have created the conditions that has allowed Grenfell to happen.
“We need to remind politicians and the public that the people who lived in Grenfell tower were not responsible for what happened.
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