Margaret Rothwell

Keir Starmer has pledged to build 1.5m new homes. But if, as expected, most are flats, chances are no one will want to buy them, says Margaret Rothwell. Why? Because people are waking up to why leaseholds are worthless.

We still haven't learnt the lessons from the Grenfell fire, says Margaret Rothwell. To stop it happening again, we need intelligent alarms, second staircases, firemen's lifts and the retrofitting of sprinklers.