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Shadow Secretary for Housing: ‘I’ve had to listen to heartbreaking tales’

Shadow Secretary for Housing, Labour's Thangam Debbonaire says she has heard “heartbreaking tales� of people paying increased costs and losing their homes because of unsafe cladding.

Labour are calling for the government to set up a national cladding taskforce to tackle the issue.

Speaking to 5 Live’s Naga Munchetty, Thangam said the government has “rightly told people to stay home [during lockdown], but for these people they’re being told to stay home in a home that is not safe… this is an appalling way to treat people.�

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