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of removing it from properties they bought in good faith. the government has set up a £5 billion fund to help pay towards the costs but only for the tallest buildings others are now being offered loans. tonight home secretary priti patel says the new law will make properties safer in the future. sarah corker reports. who should pay to fix britain s broken buildings? from london to leeds, merseyside to manchester, thousands of leaseholders are facing huge bills to remove dangerous cladding and to fix other fire safety faults. i have spent days and weeks crying about it, worrying about our future. in manchester, this was rachel and her partner s first home together. now they feel trapped. declaring bankruptcy at this age, you know, what does that do to us for our future? it decimates it. so, yeah, it s. yeah, it s terrifying. and these are real discussions about
end up in the courts. it will probably end up with the executive trying to make up with perhaps some of the failings that we have seen in the parliamentary system here. this ping pong that we have seen for years and years. mps say to delay the legislation any further would have cost lives, but it remains pretty unclear as to how this law is going to work in practice. whether essential works will be carried out if the leaseholders are unwilling or unable to pay for the changes that are needed to be made. in the meantime, whether they have got enough money to even just keep the lights on and the lifts working in these high rise buildings, which otherwise would render them completely uninhabitable. india has again reported record numbers of new cases and deaths, as it fights to contain a huge surge in the spread of coronavirus. more than 3,600 people have been reported dead in the last 24 hours alone, and there were almost 380,000 new infections.
good evening. people facing huge bills to replace flammable cladding on their flats have criticised a new fire safety law which came into force today. the new law is aimed at making homes safer following the grenfell tower fire, in which 72 people died. but campaigners argue it does nothing to help current leaseholders whose homes have dangerous cladding and are having to bear the huge cost of removing it from properties. the government has set up a £5 billion fund to help pay towards the costs but only for the tallest buildings. others are now being offered loans. our business correspondent sarah corker reports. who should pay to fix britain s dangerous buildings? from london to leeds, merseyside to manchester, hundreds of thousands of leaseholders are living in flats wrapped in flammable materials. after grenfell, they never thought they d have to foot the bill.