How botched Tory insulation scheme looms over Labour’s warm homes plan

Tens of thousands of households have been affected by the ‘catastrophic failure’ of the energy company obligation insulation programme, MPs say. Photograph: Alamy

No homeowner wants to be faced with a hefty bill for household repairs – and when those charges are the result of botched insulation under a UK government-run scheme, individual misfortune turns to national scandal.

That has been the experience of tens of thousands of households after what MPs have condemned as the “catastrophic failure” of the energy company obligation (Eco) insulation programme run by the last Conservative government, the results of which have only recently been uncovered.