Michael Gove is right to try to get housebuilders to stump up £4bn to fix fire safety, but the plans need more work
At last: a scheme that roughly resembles a financial solution to the government’s scandalous failure to ensure combustible cladding is removed from mid-rise residential homes.
It’s not perfect, and one can quibble with many details in Michael Gove’s plan to invite, with menaces, developers to pledge to cough up £4bn by March. But the secretary of state for levelling up, housing and communities is heading in the right direction.