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You are here: Home / News / Cladding scandal Westminster demo, February 25: three mayors, 27 MPs, 300 leaseholders, a swarm of media …

Cladding scandal Westminster demo, February 25: three mayors, 27 MPs, 300 leaseholders, a swarm of media …

February 26, 2020 //  by Sebastian O'Kelly

Andy Burnham, Sadiq Khan, Paul Dennett, Salford mayor, and new MP Apsana Begum, representing Polar and Limehouse – the constituency of former MP and LKP patron Jim Fitzpatrick. In the background: John Healey (left) and Sir Peter Bottomley (centre right)

More than 300 leaseholders from sites caught up in the cladding scandal descended on Westminster yesterday.

The repeated appeal was: make these buildings safe and don’t dump the bill on the leaseholders.

This was the message from Andy Burnham, the Manchester mayor, who organised the event with the Manchester Cladiators group, and strongly seconded by Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, where the bulk of these cladding sites are situated.

Salford mayor Paul Dennett, who is also an elected councillor with responsibility for all Manchester housing, also spoke.

Speeches were made by key figures in the debate, including MPs: Sir Peter Bottomley and Justin Madders, the co-chairs of the APPG on leasehold and commonhold reform and patrons of LKP; Hilary Benn; John Healey and Lucy Powell.

The most powerful speech of all came from Rituparna Saha, co-founder of the UK Cladding Action Group, whose site Northpoint, in Bromley, SE London, has been referenced many times on LKP and all media.

UKCAG cladding demonstration
Ritu Saha, London leaseholder and co-founder of the UK Cladding Action Group, surrounded by front-rank politicians, made the most powerful speech of the day

It can be heard here:

MPs and politicans who attended the demonstration:

After the demonstration there was an APPG meeting in Westminster itself attended by leaseholders and MPs and Lords.

Those who attended the demo were:

  1. Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester
  2. Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London
  3. Tom Copley AM, Deputy Mayor of London for Housing
  4. John Healey, Shadow Housing Secretary and MP for Wentworth and Dearne
  5. Paul Dennett, Mayor of Salford and Chair of the Greater Manchester High-Rise Task Force
  6. Hilary Benn MP, Leeds Central, Labour
  7. Justin Madders MP, Ellesmere Port and Neston and APPG co-chair, Labour
  8. Sir Peter Bottomley MP, Worthing West and APPG co-chair, Conservative
  9. Tom Hunt MP, Ipswich, Conservative
  10. Matthew Offord MP, Hendon, Conservative
  11. Siobhan Benita, Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of London
  12. Baroness Kramer, Liberal Democrat and former minister
  13. Lucy Powell MP, Manchester Central, Labour
  14. Jim McMahon MP, Oldham West and Royton, Labour
  15. Matthew Pennycook MP, Greenwich and Woolwich, Labour
  16. Apsana Begum MP, Poplar and Limehouse, Labour
  17. Fleur Anderson MP, Putney, Labour
  18. Shabana Mahmood MP, Birmingham Ladywood, Labour
  19. Rupa Huq MP, Ealing Central and Acton, Labour
  20. Graham Stringer MP, Blackley and Broughton, Labour
  21. Marsha de Cordova MP, Battersea, Labour
  22. Sam Tarry MP, Ilford South, Labour
  23. Florence Eshalomi MP, Vauxhall, Labour
  24. Abena Oppong-Asare MP, Erith and Thamesmead, Labour
  25. Afzal Khan MP, Manchester Gorton, Labour
  26. Mike Kane MP, Wythenshawe & Sale East, Labour
  27. Navendu Mishra MP, Stockport, Labour

Here are the audio files of the speeches:

Andy Burnham cladding demonstration
Andy Burnham, Manchester mayor, addresses the demonstration, with LKP patrons and co-chairs of APPG Sir Peter Bottomley and Justin Madders in the background
Andy Burnham’s rousing speech to cladding leaseholders demo, February 25 2020
Fran Reddington Manchester Cladiators
Fran Reddington, of Manchester Cladiators, has been a stalwart figure in organising leaseholders faced with the disaster of combustible cladding
Fran Reddington, Manchester Cladiators
Sadiq Khan cladding demonstration
Sadiq Khan, London mayor, addresses the demonstration in front of Westminster of February 25
Sadiq Khan, London mayor. London has the largest number of cladding sites
Sir Peter Bottomley cladding demonstration
Sir Peter Bottomley: No MP has done more for leaseholders, revealing murky practices and calling out the wide-boys in this infinitely exploitable sector
Sir Peter Bottomley, co-chair of the APPG on leasehold reform
Hilary Benn cladding demonstration
Hilary Benn, MP for Leeds Central, addressed the LKP meeting at London City Hall on February 6 and called a parliamentary debate on February 12. He has taken a central role in the cladding scandal
Hilary Benn’s fine, passionate speech had touches of Gladstonian oratory
John Healey cladding demonstration
John Healey, the shadow housing secretary, has been at the forefront, with his team, of all the leasehold abuses over the past two years. The cladding scandal is the latest, with the still unanswered question: will the leaseholders be made to pay?
Shadow Housing Secretary John Healey
Lucy Powell MP
Paul Dennett cladding demonstration
Paul Dennett, the mayor of Salford, also has responsibility for housing in greater Manchester. He has been leading on the cladding scandal, which is why this event was a Manchester initiative not primarily a London one, even though the capital has by far the majority of the cladding sites in the country
Paul Dennett, mayor of Salford
Martin Boyd, LKP chair, and Sir Peter Bottomley at APPG on leasehold reform that followed the demo

Media coverage

Combustible cladding: protesters call on Boris Johnson to end crisis

Owners of high-rise apartments wrapped in combustible cladding have demonstrated in Westminster to demand Boris Johnson release billions of pounds to end a national fire safety crisis that continues nearly 1,000 days after the Grenfell Tower disaster.

Cladding protesters ‘trapped in worthless homes’

Residents “trapped in worthless homes” due to unsafe cladding have demanded help from the government. Ministers have pledged £600m to pay for the removal of aluminium composite material (ACM) similar to the type used in the Grenfell Tower. Leaseholders from London and Manchester gather at Westminster to demand that the scheme include other types of potentially dangerous materials.

Related posts:

Paul Dennett Andy BurnhamNorthern mayors and MPs to join cladding demo outside Parliament on February 25 Sun shines on the leaseholders’ demo at Parliament: after Jenrick, is this a new dawn? Hilary Benn City HallCladding leaseholders must unite … and get MPs to attend Hilary Benn’s debate on February 12 MPs turn out in force to welcome leaseholder demonstrators at Westminster MPs turn the heat on government over cladding scandal … on the day before two housing ministers were given the chop

Category: Cladding scandal, HomeSlider, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Andy Burnham, Apsana Begum MP, Dr Matthew Offord MP, Fran Reddington, Hilary Benn MP, John Healey MP, Justin Madders MP, Lucy Powell MP, Manchester Cladiators, Matthew Pennycook MP, Paul Dennett, Ritu Saha, Rupa Huq MP, Sadiq Khan, Sam Tarry MP, Sir Peter Bottomley, Tom Copley, UKCAG

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