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Residents and campaigners protest outside Housing Ministry over delay in removing flammable cladding

in Westminster

SEVENTY-THREE organisations, unions and MPs put their names to a letter delivered to the government yesterday calling for the removal of flammable cladding.

Campaigners rallied outside the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) against nationwide delays to its removal from tower blocks, exactly a year after they delivered a similar letter which received no response.

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