Boris Johnson stands accused of betraying homeowners after ministers unveiled a £3.5bn fund to fix dangerous cladding which risks leaving an estimated half a million people still facing financial difficulties. The prime minister faced a backlash from his own MPs after the housing secretary, Robert Jenrick, announced that homeowners in blocks less than 18 metres tall would be left out of a new cladding crisis fund. They will be offered long-term low-interest loans instead, which some said risked pushing them into negative equity. Last week Johnson told parliament: “No leaseholder should have to pay for the unaffordable costs of fixing safety defects that they didn’t cause and are no fault of their own.” Read more on the Guardian website.
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