MPs have demanded major change in the standards of social housing after the death in Rochdale of two-year-old Awaab Ishak - and spoke out in support of a campaign by the Manchester Evening News for a new law in the two-year-old's memory to ensure a tragedy like it never happens again.
Labour's Lisa Nandy, the Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, called for an urgent Government investigation into the treatment of refugees in the housing system and urged Michael Gove to investigate 'the role that racism may have played in the treatment of Awaab and his family'.
The comments come as the Manchester Evening News launches a campaign for a change in the law that would compel housing associations not to allow any other child, or anyone else, to suffer in damp and mouldy social housing.
