Housing secretary told that sellers of combustible materials and government must also pay to fix flats

Britain’s biggest housebuilding companies have told the government they must not be the only ones to pay the potential £4bn cost of fixing fire safety problems in apartment blocks.

At a crunch meeting with Michael Gove on Thursday, they said the government and companies that sold combustible materials must shoulder some of the blame.

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