How the Building Safety Regulator has become the slow death of Labour’s housing agenda

How the Building Safety Regulator has become the slow death of Labour’s housing agenda

Chris Worrall is a housing columnist for LFF. He is on the Executive Committee of the Labour Housing Group, Co-Host of the Priced Out Podcast, and Chair of the Local Government and Housing Member Policy Group of the Fabian Society.  “Safety first” has become Whitehall’s code for “build nothing”. It’s now June 2025, and the Building Safety Regulator (BSR), well meaningfully born from Grenfell, and then bloated by bureaucracy, has finally been dra…