THE total ban on Grenfell-type cladding must be enforced now to stop unscrupulous firms continuing to use the material before the cut-off in December, the inquiry into the disaster heard today.

Earlier this month, the government finally banned the specific type of cladding used on the west London tower block that enabled the fire to rapidly spread across the building’s exterior on June 14 2017. 

The ban comes five years after the devastating blaze and two decades after the government first received information about the danger of polyethylene-cord cladding in 2002.