EMPTY luxury properties in Kensington should be taken over by the government to save people who lost their homes in the Grenfell Tower fire from having to leave the area, Jeremy Corbyn suggested yesterday.

The Labour leader said it was unacceptable for poor people and the homeless to be left looking for somewhere to live while land banking takes place in the area, adding that properties should be “requisitioned if necessary.”

Mr Corbyn also pointed out that hundreds of thousands of people living in tower blocks will be “frightened, traumatised and very, very worried” following the blaze in west London.