On Monday in the House of Commons, Michael Gove made a series of announcements with regard to building safety. In fact, he made so many announcements in quick succession that it was difficult to keep up with his speech at times. 

The speech was one that he had advised would be made before Christmas but was delayed for some reason, quite possibly to enable further detail to be added to the proposals. However, the element of surprise was thwarted by parts of the announcement being seemingly leaked to the press a few days before.

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