The UK government “shares” the moral responsibility for the cost of sorting out the post-Grenfell fire safety crisis, the outgoing chief executive of Taylor Wimpey has said.

Pete Redfern told Housing Today that the industry accepted it needed to go beyond its strict legal responsibilities in paying for the repair of housing blocks now deemed to be unsafe, but that information emerging from the Grenfell Inquiry showed that the government also had to take its share of the cost.

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