A senior Tory MP has warned Boris Johnson to "get a grip" of his ministers following, what he referred to as, "unacceptable behaviour" from various secretaries of state.
Vice-chair of the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers Sir Charles Walker, who said he was "very disappointed", named Matt Hancock and Grant Shapps in his interview with BBC Radio 4's World at One programme. In response to the travel threats introduced by the health secretary, Sir Charles scoffed: "Ten years [in prison] for crying out loud".
Meanwhile, the government has received backlash from both Conservative and Labour MPs for its refusal to pay for cladding removal from shorter buildings (below 18m), forcing many leaseholders to take out loans to cover the costs.
Communities secretary Robert Jenrick made the announcement in the Commons today following Mr Johnson's weekly PMQs session, sparking Tory MP Stephen McPartland to call it a "betrayal of millions of leaseholders". Shadow housing secretary Thangam Debbonaire responded by blaming "government choices" for "repeated undelivered promises".
"As a result of government choices, three-and-a-half years on from the Grenfell tragedy in which 72 people lost their lives, hundreds of thousands of people are still trapped in unsafe homes, many more unable to move," she told MPs.
