00:00Nigel Farage has now sacked Simon Dudley as Reform UK's housing spokesman after mounting
00:07anger over his comment that the Grenfell Tower fire was a tragedy but that everyone dies in the
00:14end. Reform leader Mr Farage said Mr Dudley is no longer a spokesman. Prime Minister Sir Keir
00:21Starmer had joined calls for Mr Dudley to be fired over the quote-unquote shameful remarks
00:27which a bereaved and survivors group branded deeply dehumanising. Mr Dudley who was appointed
00:34as housing spokesman for Reform last month had said the pendulum had swung too far the wrong way
00:42on regulation after the 2017 fire which killed 72 people. The former executive at Homes England and
00:51the Epps Fleet Development Corporation said in an interview with Inside Housing published on
00:56Wednesday that building safety regulations introduced after the Grenfell Tower fire
01:01were an example of quote-unquote regulation which is not working. Housing Secretary Steve Reid warned
01:09that Mr Farage had demonstrated a shameful failure of judgment in appointing Mr Dudley. He said Simon
01:16Dudley's disgusting comments about those who died in Grenfell Tower show what a shameful failure
01:21of judgment it was for him to have been appointed as Reform's housing spokesperson.
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