Failure to insulate UK homes costing thousands of lives a year, says report

Greenpeace activists create mock cemetery from insulation material outside Houses of Parliament on Wednesday. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

The government’s failure to insulate the UK’s cold and leaky homes is costing thousands of lives a year, according to analysis.

The report from Greenpeace reveals 58 people have died due to cold homes every day on average during the winter since David Cameron’s Conservative government decided to “cut the green crap” in 2013 – drastically slashing support for home insulation.