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LABOUR MPs have slammed the government’s Fire Safety Bill for lacking content on how to make buildings safer after the Grenfell Tower tragedy.
Brent North MP Barry Gardiner said during the second reading of the five-page Bill yesterday that “criticising it would be as futile as criticising an empty bookshelf.”
He said that its first clause clarifies the Fire Safety Order 2005 and its second clause is “no more than a delegated power to make regulations amending that order in the future.”
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
As we approach the half-anniversary of the Grenfell tragedy, the community gathers to remember loved ones while grappling with mixed emotions surrounding the ongoing deconstruction of the tower and the hopeful plans for a memorial, writes EMMA DENT COAD
The Bill addresses some exploitation but leaves trade unions heavily regulated, most workers without collective bargaining coverage, and fails to tackle the balance of power that enables constant mutation of bad practice, write KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY KC
