Labour will take urgent action to tackle dangerous cladding

LABOUR will take urgent action to tackle the “national emergency” of dangerous cladding on tower blocks, shadow housing secretary John Healey announced today.

Official government figures showed last week that the government will miss set targets for removing Grenfell-style ACM cladding of tower blocks by over a decade, with nine in 10 private blocks still containing dangerous cladding.

Labour has vowed to speed up the process of replacement if they win next month’s general...
source: Morning Star Online

2019-11-19 19:26

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