Boris Johnson had a pretty easy ride at Prime Minister’s Questions today, despite Keir Starmer raising two policy problems that the government is really struggling to stay on top of. The Labour leader asked his first three questions on the quarantine policy, pushing Johnson for much tougher rules, and then turned to the cladding scandal.
As we have repeatedly covered
on Coffee House, the latter is a huge consumer crisis that is leaving thousands of people trapped in homes they cannot sell or with bills for remedial works to remove dangerous cladding reaching into the tens of thousands of pounds.
Starmer channelled Jeremy Corbyn and quoted some of those affected. He did press the Prime Minister to the extent that Johnson said the government would be announcing a plan shortly to prevent leaseholders being hit with ‘unaffordable’ bills. But this promise isn’t worth very much, as campaigners argue that leaseholders shouldn’t have to foot any bills for the remedial works – and are
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