This Letter Sent By Tory Kensington Council Leader Will Infuriate You

This letter sent by Kensington and Chelsea's council leader, Nick Paget-Brown, to residents in 2014 will absolutely infuriate you.

James O'Brien was absolutely horrified at the discovery of a letter sent by Kensington and Chelsea's Tory Council Leader, Nick Paget-Brown in 2014 to rich local residents.

On his LBC show, James shared with his listeners the letter sent by Mr Paget-Brown, to residents living in the borough where the Grenfell Tower took place.

He said: "OK are you ready for this? In 2014, the leader of Kensington and Chelsea council, Nicholas Paget-Brown, wrote to all residents to pay their council tax in full.

"I think everybody in Kensington and Chelsea are going to be in the top band, aren't they, for council tax nationally speaking? I can't imagine there are many properties in that area that don't fall into the top council tax band, so low is it, it has never been raised since it was introduced.

"Anyone who had paid their council tax in full, I think in the top band, received a letter from the leader of the Kensington and Chelsea council explaining that they would all receive, you might want to sit down for this...I suspect this letter dropped through the letter boxes of Kensington and Chelsea residents, residents of the richest borough in the country, the richest residents, of the richest country, received this letter at about the time catastrophic cladding was being attached to the side of a tower block."

The letter said that these residents would receive a one-off payment of £100 to be deducted from their council tax bill.

James went on: "The bonus was due to the council's 'careful management of its finances' over the years. This, while... catastrophic cladding was being stuck to the side of the building in order to save five grand. Wow."