I don’t say this lightly, but this extraordinary report by two independent government inspectorates into the way in which people were detained by the Home Office at Napier Barracks is a matter that calls for ministerial resignations. gov.uk/government/new…
“Fundamental failures of leadership and planning”.
This is what Patel said about it on 24 Feb to @CommonsHomeAffs. 
Those answers suggest that Patel had looked into the issues. But it is, to put it mildly, hard to square those answers with the facts as set out by the inspectors.
Compare the inspectors’ report with Patel’s answer.
The correct answer would have been: “we had advice from PHE that we shouldn’t do this, but went ahead anyway.”
Instead, the answer was incoherent. In court, that would be described as “evasive”, at best.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
