Housing developers should be set a hard deadline of one year to fix the post-Grenfell cladding crisis, Labour demanded tonight.
The party called on the Government to give companies a timetable for stripping tower blocks of unsafe paneling and carrying out “all necessary remediation work to make buildings safe”.
Shadow Housing Secretary Lucy Powell will use her parliamentary debut in the role to outline plans for a National Cladding Taskforce “to get a grip of this crisis” – and urge a June 2022 deadline for fixing problems.
She said: “This is the biggest building scandal in modern history, and instead of decisive leadership to solve it, Government delays are putting lives at risk. “The Conservative Party is putting the interests of their
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