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Damage to a 19-storey tower block in New Providence Wharf, east London, believed to be covered in cladding
THE government has failed to bring an end to the cladding crisis, Labour charged yesterday, as the party called for ministers to set legally binding deadlines for developers to make buildings safe.
Labour is pushing for an amendment to the Queen’s Speech, which lays out the legislative agenda for the next year, requiring developers to remove combustible cladding from buildings by 2022.
The government should charge developers for the cost and protect leaseholders trapped in dangerous and unsellable flats from having to fork out huge sums for the work, the party said.
The recent heatwaves revealed how ill-prepared Britain remains for a hotter future – and how unequal the ability to cope with it has become, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
