Leader’s Labour heritage

Birmingham city council leader John Clancy said: “It’s a national emergency. As each day has gone by there seems to be less clarity. There is a collective national trauma at the moment and people up and down the country go to bed afraid.”

His warning came after Camden council in North London ordered a mass evacuation of 650 flats with less than an hour’s notice on Friday night.

Now 4,000 residents are facing weeks in temporary accommodation after being moved from four tower blocks with cladding similar to Grenfell Tower, where 79 are presumed dead after the horrific fire.

They were moved from the Chalcots Estate where a major refurbishment scheme was overseen by Rydon, the construction company involved in the refit of Grenfell Tower.

Some families bedded down for the have a hospital appointment on Monday. I don’t want to move far.” Rose Turner, 27, who has a nine- week- old baby son, refused to spend the night at the leisure centre.

She said: “They want me to put my baby on an airbed but he sleeps with me.

“It looked like world war three down there. I was told to get my belongings and take my son. We’re being treated like animals.”

Earlier, an angry 72-year-old woman resident confronted Camden council leader Georgia Gould outside the GEORGIA Gould took over as the Labour leader of Camden Council in May this year.

Now 31, she became a councillor for the London borough at the age of 24.

She is the author of a 2015 book called Wasted: How Misunderstanding Young Britain Threatens Our Future.

Ms Gould grew up in Camden to Labour- He said: “There were people literally running out. For what? It was fine 72 hou hours ago, it was fine two weekswe ago, it was fine when they finished the cla cladding.” Camden Council s said it had spent £500,000 on hotel rooms for residents and has offered to r reimburse those w who have paid for their own temporary accommodation. Ms Gould said it would “become a matter for the fire service” if residents stayed in their homes. She said: “Emotions were really high and some people, even with all the fire advice, decided to stay.” supporting parents. Her father Philipilip Gould has been hailed as the architectitect of New Labour having worked as a strategy trategy and polling advisor to the Labour Party between 1987 and 2005.

Her mother is Gail Rebuck, chairr of publishing house Penguin Random m House UK and a Labour peer.