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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Helen Corbett

Anger at Reform housing spokesman over ‘everyone has to die’ Grenfell comment

72 people died in the Grenfell Tower blaze in 2017 (James Manning/PA) - (PA Wire)

Reform UK is facing calls to sack its housing spokesman after he said the Grenfell Tower fire was a “tragedy” but that “everyone dies in the end”.

Simon Dudley, a former executive at Homes England and the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation, said the pendulum had “swung too far the wrong way” on regulation after the deadly blaze at the west London tower block in 2017.

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