The End Our Cladding Scandal campaign has been pushing the idea of a levy since November 2019. As recently as June, ministers were completely ruling it out.

So this is a big step forward, although is still proposing leaving leaseholders with 80%-90% of the total bill

However, I think that once a principle of a levy is established as possible it's going to be very hard for ministers to continue to argue that residents should pay such a large share. We go one step at a time towards a better solution, and this is a big one.

Once the debate was won that govt should cover ACM costs, it was only a matter of time before they caved in and put money up for non-ACM too. This should be similar: winning this debate was the big step, the conversation about numbers will be an easier one

On the process of refusing to budge until the pressure becomes too much to resist, I refer you to the comments of Theresa May's former advisor Toby Lloyd...

Scoop here from the Daily Mail (tw for the usual gratuitous use of images of Grenfell on fire) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9157869/Ministers-consider-2bn-levy-developers-families-face-15bn-bill-safe-homes-Grenfell.html