JUST over nine months on from the fire which destroyed Grenfell Tower, the UK remains in crisis.
The dangerous cladding has been found on almost 300 social housing tower blocks and an unknown number of private blocks, hotels, hospitals and schools up and down the country.
And behind the scenes, an almighty row is underway over who is to blame.
Four days after the fire, chancellor Philip Hammond took to prime-time BBC to insist the cladding used on Grenfell was “banned”. Since then, government officials have repeatedly said the material does not comply with building regulations and never did… MORE

The opening paragraphs of “The Paper Trail: the Failure of Building Regulations”written by Pete Apps, Sophie Barnes and Luke Barratt and published in Insider Housing