that's rushanara ali, labour, housing and communities minister to you.tani, your thoughts on all of this. >> it's obviously deeply upsetting the point that rushanara ali made a moment ago about tenants being best placed to determine where there are problems is absolutely true. in the case of grenfell, there were tenants groups trying to reach out to local government, in particular the council. council leadership, etc. council offices for people watching or listening . for people watching or listening. they're not elected, but they work on the behalf of the council repeatedly saying that the building wasn't safe, bringing all kinds of issues up, for instance, fire exits not being appropriate for a building of that size, and scale. they were ignored repeatedly. and of course, people make the assertion that was because of who they were working class people and generally quite affluent part of london. and i think there's a great deal of truth to that. i also have to say the immediate response to the tragedy in 2017 by local and national government was appall

ministry of housing, communities and local government official rushanara ali said the blame lies with previous government. >> the report sets out that successive governments have failed to provide the protection and tackle this issue. and so what's absolutely crucial is that we make sure that buildings that we make sure that buildings that are unsafe, the remediation work happens speedily. it hasn't happened fast enough. enough people are living in unsafe buildings and they need these buildings and they need these buildings to be remediated . buildings to be remediated. >> and rishi sunak , now leader >> and rishi sunak, now leader of the opposition, has attacked labour's move to axe the winter fuel allowance for millions of pensioners. he faced off with sir keir starmer at the first prime minister's questions since parliament returned from summer recess. the conservative leader accused the prime minister of taking money from low income pensioners and ploughing it into inflation busting pay rises for union workers. however, prime minister sir keir starmer defended his decision to cut

housing, communities and local government minister rushanara ali said the blame lies with the previous successive governments have failed to provide the protection and tackle this issue. and so what's absolutely crucial is that we make sure that buildings that we make sure that buildings that are unsafe, the remediation work happens speedily. it hasn't happened fast enough. enough people are living in unsafe buildings and they need these buildings and they need these buildings to be remediated. >> rishi sunak, now leader of the opposition, has

housing, communities and local government minister rushanara ali said the blame lies with the previous government. >> the report sets out that successive governments have failed to provide the protection and tackle this issue. and so what's absolutely crucial is that we make sure that buildings that we make sure that buildings that are unsafe, the remediation work happens speedily. it hasn't happened fast enough. enough people are living in unsafe buildings and they need these buildings and they need these buildings to be remediated. >> rishi sunak, now leader of the opposition, has attacked labour's move to axe the winter fuel allowance for millions of commissioners. he faced off with sir keir starmer at the first prime minister's questions since parliament returned from the summer recess. the conservative leader accused the prime minister of taking money from low income pensioners and ploughing it into inflation busting pay rises for union workers . however, prime minister workers. however, prime minister sir keir starmer defended his decision to cut winter fuel payments, saying it's

the intensive care ward and staying in london, we move over to bethnal green and stepney to find rushanara aliwe then zip up the m40 to birmingham , here's the m40 to birmingham, here's the m40 to birmingham, here's the flimsy 700 vote majority won by the women and girls minister jess phillips in yardley , and jess phillips in yardley, and finally across to wales, where under secretary of state nia griffith will have to defend a 1500 majority in barnsley at the next election. there you go, martin. that's, that's what's happening with government, mps. but we've got another video to come in a minute. >> yeah, let's put that on now . >> yeah, let's put that on now. there you go. so get cracking . there you go. so get cracking. >> okay, so, this is looking at the country as a whole, and we're up in scotland here with new stirling and strath alan mp, chris kane, the snp there with a majority of less than 1400. we now go to the other end of the country down to anna gelderd at in south—east cornwall. her majority is only slightly better at 1911, and then zooming up to the derbyshire dales, where john