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‘Disgraceful’ treatment of social tenants and stigma they face must change, deputy PM saysIn her inteview with Times Radio this morning Angela Rayner, the deputy prime minister, was also asked about her dancing antics on holiday in Ibiza last week, where film of her behind the DJ deck at a club made the news, and generated sneering from some of the more unhinged figures on the right. Rayner replied:People have an opinion, but you know, if I’m on holiday for a couple of days, I’m on holiday for a couple of days ... I think we’ve all had a dance at one time in our lives and I don’t know, it’s subjective to whether or not I can dance or not!I take my job really seriously, and I’m always in Parliament and I’m always doing what needs to be done and I’ll continue to do that.I’m working class, I like a dance, I like dance music. I got criticised for going to the opera if you remember - I was a champagne socialise for going to the theatre.Rayner said the report highlighted the “disgraceful” treatment of social tenants. She told the Today programme she wanted to see a “cultural shift to empowering people”. She went on:I think the people of Grenfell were dismissed and not listened to and were not empowered as tenants.And I think that we’ve got to make sure that greed and profit is not put above safety …She said she wanted to the police and the Crown Prosecution Service as “as quickly as possible” to bring people to justice over the fire, but she said it was an “incredibly complex investigation”.She said that money was available to remove dangerous cladding still on tower blocks and that there was “no excuse” for building owners not acting. She told BBC Breakfast:At the moment, there’s £5bn that’s available for remediation, so I don’t accept that the money’s not there. And these companies, the people that own these buildings, have financial resources as well. I don’t accept that there is not the money to do this remediation … There’s no excuse to not do this work now.She suggested she would pass a new law to speed up the removal of dangerous cladding. She told Times Radio:I am determined to make sure that our remediation acceleration plan comes forward with, if we need changes to legislation, which I believe we will, especially in light of the report findings that we have got now which we will have to go through and to ensure that we do everything we possibly can to speed this up. Continue reading...