One cold afternoon in January 1974, the future treasurer of the Labour party, Jack Dromey, donned the uniform of a Burns International Security Services guard and climbed the stairs to the glass doors of the Centre Point tower.
Dromey and his fellow undercover housing campaigner, Andy Carter, were the arrowhead of an audacious occupation of the central London block that had been left vacant for a decade by its speculative developer, Harry Hyams, becoming a symbol of the housing crisis under Edward Heath’s government.
