Over 50,000 people have joined MPs from across Greater Manchester to back the Manchester Evening News' campaign for 'Awaab's Law' in memory of a two-year-old boy who died after mould and damp inside his family's flat went untreated for years, despite their complaints.
The politicians spoke out after the chief executive of housing association Rochdale Boroughwide Housing, Gareth Swarbrick, refused to resign despite calls for him to quit made by Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Rochdale Council - as his organisation also comes under the spotlight of the Housing Ombudsman, which is investigating further, similar complaints made by other tenants in Rochdale.
Lisa Nandy MP, the Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities who has called for an urgent Government investigation into the treatment of refugees in the housing system, described toddler Awaab's death - and the circumstances leading up to it - as 'a stain on our nation's conscience'.
