Reform UK have been urged to sack the party’s housing spokesman over his “disgraceful” comments about the Grenfell Tower tragedy. Simon Dudley said “everyone dies in the end” and “fires happen” as he said there was now too much regulation in the building industry. A huge fire at the 24-storey west London tower block killed 72 people in 2017. The tragedy led to a major overhaul of building regulations to prevent it happening again. But in an interview with the trade publication Inside Housing, Dudley said the pendulum had “swung too far the wrong way”. He said the Grenfell fire was a “tragedy” but added: “Sadly, you know, everyone dies in the end. It’s just how you go, right?” Dudley went on: “Extracting Grenfell from the statistics, actually people dying in house fires is rare. “Many, many more people die on the roads driving cars, but we’re not making cars illegal, so why are we stopping houses being built?” Reacting on X, Keir Starmer said: “Shameful. Nigel Farage should do the decent thing and sack …