Taskforce to oversee cladding removal is not ready, admits minister

James Brokenshire says team promised in June to make safe high-rise towers is still not activeA government taskforce announced in June to help make safe privately owned tower blocks wrapped in combustible Grenfell-style cladding has still not started work, the housing secretary, James Brokenshire, has admitted.Only five of the 183 high-rise private apartment blocks found to have unsafe cladding have so far been repaired as disputes continue between freeholders and leaseholders over who should pa