The UK government is shirking its duty in the cladding scandal | Simon Jenkins

The Grenfell inquiry made it clear that private companies, not residents, should pay to make high-rise towers safe

For the 72 people who died in the Grenfell Tower fire four years ago, the cladding scandal was fatal. For thousands more, it is becoming a nightmare. The government is removing the deadly cladding from some 500 of the most at-risk towers, but beyond that, the residents of an estimated 1,500 high-rise buildings in England considered unsafe – and therefore unsellable, unmortgageable an...