Housing Secretary Michael Gove has threatened “severe consequences” if the companies responsible for producing the flammable cladding and insulation panels involved in the Grenfell Tower fire do not come up with a financial support package.
The fire in the West London suburb of North Kensington in June, 2017 killed 72 people.
A public inquiry has heard the blaze began in a refrigerator in a fourth-floor flat, but spread quickly up the side of the 24-storey building. This was possible because the aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding panels and insulation panels that had been fitted to the exterior of the tower as part of a renovation programme in 2016 were flammable….