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Evening Standard
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Oscar Williams-Grut

Michael Gove says he’ll do ‘whatever it takes’ to get builders to pay for cladding crisis

Housing and Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove

(Picture: PA Media)

Michael Gove has warned there will be “consequences” for house builders and cladding firms that fail to sign up to his building safety plans, warning time is running out to agree.

The Housing and Levelling Up Secretary said the government “will do whatever it takes to hold industry to account, and under our new measures there will be nowhere to hide."

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