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Labour MPs slam ‘small’ Fire Safety Bill: ‘little to see’

LABOUR MPs have slammed the government’s Fire Safety Bill for lacking content on how to make buildings safer after the Grenfell Tower tragedy.

Brent North MP Barry Gardiner said during the second reading of the five-page Bill yesterday that “criticising it would be as futile as criticising an empty bookshelf.”

He said that its first clause clarifies the Fire Safety Order 2005 and its second clause is “no more than a delegated power to make regulations amending that order in the future.”

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