Cladding warnings nearly 20 years before Grenfell 'not acted on' by successive governments

Successive governments did not act on warnings about dangerous cladding nearly 20 years before the "entirely avoidable" Grenfell Tower blaze, says the firefighters union.General secretary of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) Matt Wrack said both Labour and Conservative politicians had been guilty of "complacency" about fire policy "for a long time".Mr Wrack said the union warned a Commons select committee in 1999 that some cladding systems posed a threat to life following a blaze at Garnock Court in