now she's moved out. you're sat here in a flammable flat 2a hours a day, particularly during lockdown, knowing that your building could go up in flames any minute. i couldn't sleep, i couldn't eat, i couldn't concentrate. my mental health was in absolute bits. but alison's building, like hundreds of others, isn't being made safe. managing agents who act for the building's freeholders are refusing to sign contracts with the government to release the funding. nigel glen represents the agents. he says the contract, while paying for cladding problems, makes them liable for all other fire—safety defects. we represent 325 managing agents — none of them have signed. we've talked to freeholders, we've talked to cladding action groups, and as far as i know, none of them have signed. it's a really difficult situation. we're talking here of hundreds of blocks, potentially hundreds of thousands of people, and we just can't sign it, because by doing so, you take on the liability which would render you technically insolvent. the ministry of housing says the managing agents�* interpretation