It was a strange experience to be safe and then there is bacteria, they found it in the water. It is kind of off, but what can i say . I have to go with the others. It is only a week ago the first people were moving in. But the same day tests showed bacteria in the water and Council Officials met the contractor operating the vessel and on wednesday further samples were taken and there was a further meeting on thursday and people were moved on friday. People were moved as soon as ministers were aware. No people have had health assessments, there has been no concerns in terms of people that have been on the barge. This was intended to be a big, bold demonstration of the government getting tough, tackling immigration, stopping the small boats. Yet it is starting to illustrate how complicated the issues can be and how difficult it is to find solutions. Itjust seems a mess, everything they seem to do ends like this, where they are stuck by some legislation. If youre going to put people on t
What everyone should remember is if you cast your mind back to the 1970s and the labour government, they were trying to do deals with all kinds of people, including the Northern Irish mps. It requires a huge amount of discipline and a lot of hard work. The other thing it requires is something that i think is pretty lacking in the Prime Minister and thatis lacking in the Prime Minister and that is the sort of chumminess but shes quite an iceberg and that doesnt augur well for the sort of relationships you need to build. It will be quite difficult to hold in place. Very interesting. Thanks for being with us. Nick timothy and Fiona Hill Have resigned in the last half hour. They have now gone and we will wait to see what happens next. More from here throughout the day. Lets just pause and catch up with the weather forever you are in the United Kingdom this afternoon. Very lovely in london. Lets find out what it is like everywhere. Quite a variety of weather across like everywhere. Quite a
it comes to bacteria on the barge? we know that dorset counsel to the met council received test results last monday, the day those first migrants were put onto the barge. testing had happened the previous month on the 25th ofjuly put up the water systems were tested for the bacteria. there was already a question over the potential presence of this bacteria when those migrants will put on board on monday. the question is, how quickly did this information that there was the bacteria present and escalate up the chain? on tuesday a home office official was on call with contractors and they were told that tessa come back indicating low levels of the bacteria. government sources say it was a junior official who just sources say it was a junior official whojust happen to sources say it was a junior official who just happen to be on a call and a home office wasn t notified formally. wednesday day uk health security got involved in further tests proved there was sufficient bacteria to justify c