The Labour politician squirmed after Chantal Peters, who has been kicked out of her home in a Camden tower block, blew up at the MP for the series of systematical failures exposed in the wake of the devastating Grenfell Tower inferno.
“What’s going on?” she barked. “We need answers. We’ve been put in a hotel room with two beds pushed together with my four kids.”
Host Piers Morgan chipped in: “All of her kids’ lives have been put at risk. Chantal was saying to me she’s in a hotel now, but that won’t last.”
“I ain’t moving back back there,” Peters snapped. “My kids aren’t going back into that death trap.”
“How is it only after a blaze like this that it’s been revealed all these building are unsafe?” asked Morgan’ co-host Susanna Reid.
Healey sighed: “I think what this is now showing is we’ve got a collapse in control and checks in tower blocks.”
“How did that happen?” Reid intervened. “In 1999, under a Labour report, it read, ‘We do not believe it should take a serious fire before steps are taken to minimise serious risks.’
“Now we have we got to 18 years later where that was proven true.”
Healey scrambled to explain: “That was a general warning, during our period of time in government we brought in new regulations such as sprinkler systems…”
“And you should have,” Morgan complained. “Why aren’t they in place?”
Peters waded in: “You’ve got my kids in a death trap – there are disabled, pregnant people, people with pets – you need to go to jail. All of us need to come together as a community.”
Pointing to Healey, she continued: “They’re up to something. It’s disgusting. You’re going to give me a house, that’s what you’re going to give me.”
“We’re trying our best to make sure the things that need doing are done,” Healey assured.
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