Thread by @LiamSpender

1/6 Many thanks to @LKPleasehold for publishing my write up of Commons and Lords proceedings on #FireSafetyBill yesterday.

There were some encouraging signs yesterday, which I summarise in this thread.

There's still a chance for the gov't to see sense and change track today.

https://twitter.com/LKPleasehold/status/1387309607660441603

2/6 Yesterday's positives were:

1. The Commons rebellion among Conservative backbenchers held strong.

2. The Lords voted by a large majority to protect leaseholders.

3. Gov't indicated it would bring forward a ban on forfeiture & extend limitation periods for building defects

3/6 The forfeiture and limitation reforms have been long advocated by leasehold campaigners, including @LKPleasehold and @PBottomleyMP and @NLC_2019.

They are not to be sniffed at, assuming the government keeps its promises.

But they are not nearly enough.

4/6 The real issue here is who pays. The government is busily trying to change the law to remove any doubt that leaseholders should pay.

The #FireSafetyBill is a step along the road to doing that.

This is moral cowardice.

This is a failure of leadership.

5/6 Gov't cannot have sat back yesterday, with local elections next week, feeling comfortable about what it saw. There was no support at all from backbenchers in either House.

Today is the day for action, to take a step along the road to solving this problem once and for all.

6/6 So let us hope that having reflected on yesterday's disastrous result overnight, the government is today willing to come to the negotiating table and to #EndOurCladdingScandal.