Previous housing secretaries have failed to make much headway, but two sledgehammer options are availableGove looks at cutting insurance costs to tackle building safety crisis“Michael Gove, we want justice!” rang the chant across Parliament Square 24 hours after Boris Johnson had placed his new secretary of state for levelling up in charge of fixing the building safety crisis.Placards at the End Our Cladding Scandal protest last month read: “No sale, no help, no future” and “Leasehold is legalised theft”. Some took hope in Gove’s reputation as an energetic problem-solver. After the prior failures of Sajid Javid, James Brokenshire and Robert Jenrick to find a solution, others were more jaundiced. When the former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith declared that “the developers have got away scot-free”, one heckler yelled: “Your government, you hypocrite.” Continue reading…
Source : theguardian.com
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