he found horrendous overcrowding. some people had been there over a month. and there ve been at least eight cases of diphtheria even a case of mrsa. the home secretary was responding to sir roger gale. who visited this weekend, said things have gone badly because the new home secretary ignored advice from her officials and refused to procure alternative hotel accomodation. that facility operated absolutely magnificently and very efficiently indeed until five weeks ago, when, and afraid, the home secretary took the policy decision not to commission further accommodation, and it is that that has led to the crisis at manston. the home secretary denies that was the case. on no occasion have i blocked the procurement of hotels or alternative accommodation to ease the pressure on manston. i m afraid that simply isn t true, and since i ll repeat it again, but since september the 6th, when i was appointed,
miss truss as resigned the shortest premiership in british history. what i thought that she would say, but it is still shocking to hear it. she has been prime minister since september the 6th. just three and a half months ago i, was standing in this very spot looking at a lecture in the same spot that was there a few minutes ago reporting on the resignation of the previous prime minister of the conservative leadership. if you thought yesterday was chaotic, the chaos is only going to deepen. despite her extremely short term in office just 44 days, people thought it was coming. fact you may have seen this a week ago. a british tabloid in classic british cheeky humor set up this live stream of a head iceberg lettuce in a blond wig to see if the prime minister liz truss could outlast and head of lettuce. well today, we have to say the iceberg lettuce is a bit wilted, but it definitely want
she has been prime minister since september the 6th. just three and a half months ago i, was standing in this very spot looking at a lecture in the same spot that was there a few minutes ago reporting on the resignation of the previous prime minister of the conservative leadership. if you thought yesterday was chaotic, the chaos is only going to deepen. despite her extremely short term in office just 44 days, people thought it was coming. fact you may have seen this a week ago. a british tabloid in classic british cheeky humor set up this live stream of a head iceberg lettuce in a blond wig to see if the prime minister liz truss could outlast and head of lettuce. well today, we have to say the iceberg lettuce is a bit wilted, but it definitely want celebrating with the disco lights. and the conservative party is gonna have another leadership election, it s third in just over three years. just a kind of revolving door situation. now the important part of the story of prime minister
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but there aren t any specifics on this. so he talked instead about the work happening behind the scenes in government and the treasury to look at a number of different options. i spoke to a treasury source about this earlier this week and they told me that no option at the moment is off the table, they are looking at everything, doing the background work on all of those things, and the idea is that when the new prime minister comes in september the 6th, be it liz truss or rishi sunak, all of that work will have been done so they won t be any delay in putting into place whatever it is they decide they want to do. so you might think, why isn t the governmentjust cracking on and doing it now, and thatis cracking on and doing it now, and that is because it has promised it won t make any big policy or spending decisions before the new prime minister is in place, and of course the other thing is that the criticism that has been levelled at liz truss s campaign over the cost of living is that