Jeremy Corbyn calls on supporters to 'occupy' empty homes to assist victims of Grenfell fireplace tragedy

Jeremy Corbyn has known as on his supporters to “occupy” empty buildings to seek out homes for victims of Grenfell Tower fireplace. The Labour leader upped the pressure on ministers to try and do additional to seek out homes for families UN agency lost everything within the tragedy in west London. Last week mister Corbyn entailed empty homes in Kensington to incline to families to measure in once the tragedy

In a tv interview on Sunday he known as on folks to “occupy” them.

He said: “There ar an oversized range of deliberately unbroken vacant flats and properties everywhere London, it’s known as land banking.

“People with plenty of cash however a house, buy a flat, keep it empty.”

Asked by ITV querier Henry Martyn Robert Peston if he would “seize it forever, simply|or simply} just take it for as long as they’re needed”, he replied: “Occupy, obligatory purchase it, requisition it, there’s plenty of belongings you will do.

“Can’t we have a tendency to as a society simply suppose all of us? It’s all fine swing our arms around folks throughout the crisis however condition is rising the housing crisis obtaining worse, and my purpose was quite easy one, in AN emergency you have got to bring all assets to the table so as to influence that crisis which is what i feel we must always be doing during this case.”