NIGEL FARAGE sacked Reform UK’s housing spokesman today after his “deeply inappropriate” comments on the Grenfell fire drew condemnation across the political spectrum.

Simon Dudley said in an interview with Inside Housing that regulations following the Grenfell fire in 2017, which killed 72 people, had gone too far and “everyone dies in the end.”

While admitting the blaze was a “tragedy” Mr Dudley, a former developer, suggested the pendulum had “swung too far the wrong way” on fire safety and building rules.

His comments were quickly denounced by PM Sir Keir Starmer, Housing Secretary Steve Reed and the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) before the Reform leader decided to remove Mr Dudley from his post.

FBU general secretary Steve Wright called the comments “shameful” and “an attack on firefighters who run towards danger to protect the public.”

He said: “It’s a disgusting and shocking remark from a senior figure in Nigel Farage’s party.

“Yet again, Reform has shown just how unfit it is for power with this insult to the families of those who lost their lives at Grenfell.”

After the prime minister called on Mr Farage to “do the decent thing” and sack Mr Dudley, Mr Reed agreed that Mr Dudley’s words were “beyond the pale.”

He said: “Simon Dudley’s disgusting comments about those who died in Grenfell Tower show what a shameful failure of judgement it was for him to have been appointed as Reform’s housing spokesperson.

“Reform’s first instinct was to defend him, not sack him, and they had to be dragged kicking and screaming into finally doing the right thing.”

Bereaved families and survivors group Grenfell United responded to Dudley’s comments, saying: “Our loved ones did not simply ‘die’. They were failed.”

Mr Farage said during a press conference that his party’s former housing spokesman had been “dealt with.”

He also attempted to distance himself from the appointment, claiming that his deputy leader, Richard Tice, was responsible.

During the conference, Reform Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick also announced plans to cut welfare payments by £40 billion in order to pay for retaining the pensions triple lock.

Despite claiming welfare cuts would be targeted at “non-British citizens,” Mr Jenrick admitted the cuts would “absolutely” affect people who rely on them, regardless of citizenship.