Reform’s housing spokesman has been sacked after making “shocking” remarks about the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy.

The party’s Simon Dudley said that the deadly fire was a “tragedy”, but that “everyone dies in the end”.

His comments during an interview to Inside Housing Magazine revealed him describing building safety regulations introduced after the 2017 Grenfell tragedy as “regulation that is not working”.

The leader of Reform, Nigel Farage, (pictured left) confirmed that Dudley had been sacked.

In a response to a question by the BBC’s Iain Watson, Farage described the comments as “shocking”.

It follows Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer urging Farage to sack Dudley, posting on X to say he should “do the decent thing”.

The Grenfell Tower Inquiry concluded the 2017 fire was entirely preventable and was caused by decades of systemic failures in building regulation, widespread industry dishonesty over fire safety, and serious failings by central Government, local authorities and the fire service.

Sadly, you know, everyone dies in the end. It’s just how you go, right?”

In the interview with Inside Housing, Dudley said “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?”.

Dudley was asked whether Grenfell was not an awful warning about insufficient regulation. “That was a tragedy. It was a failure,” he said.

He continued: “Sadly, you know, everyone dies in the end. It’s just how you go, right?”

Apology demanded

Not long after the interview was published, the Grenfell Next of Kin group of victims’ families posted on X: “Dudley and Reform should apologise to the next of kin of the deceased.

“Worse than what he thinks and said, is the oxygen of publicity such vile, ignorant speech gets. The next of kin of those killed in the fire are torn between responding or not giving it the dignity of a response.

“The death of our parents, partners, children, siblings, grandparents and grandchildren in the most horrific circumstances was gross negligent manslaughter, NOT fate.”