and we have argued, for the past five years or longer, that product manufacturers also need to pay their fair share. that would include arconic, the french company which supplied the cladding for grenfell. whoever pays, up toi million people across the country affected by the cladding crisis say all they want is safe, mortgageable and sellable homes again. richard galpin, bbc news. earlier i spoke to sophie bichener from the uk cladding action group. we d like to thank mr gove for acknowledging the part that the government have played in the grenfell tower fire and also the building safety crisis, which has impacted millions from the back of the fire that we saw five and a half years ago. leaseholders have been living in unsafe homes, similar to that of the grenfell tower, for those five and a half years,
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FIREFIGHTERS’ union FBU has condemned an attempt by the government to stop flat owners from speaking to the press over dangerous cladding without its approval.
Even where there is “overwhelming public interest” in speaking to journalists, building owners or leaseholders applying for a fund to help remove flammable cladding must inform the government first, according to a draft agreement for the funding revealed by the Sunday Times.
The government set up a £1.6 billion fund last year to repair dangerous buildings, but also warned that it might not cover all the costs of removal.
Today, the FBU tweeted: “At every stage of the UK’s building safety crisis, the government has sought to ignore or delay dealing with matters of life and death.