With the generosity we have come to associate with her, Home Secretary Suella yet again gave a junior colleague the opportunity to shine.
Into the spotlight, she sent her Immigration minister Robert Jenrick to answer an Urgent Question from Diana Johnson, of the Home Affairs select committee on a migrant reception centre in Kent.
It’s the sort of Question at which the Home Secretary excels.
Apparently, conditions are terrible, families are sleeping on camp beds, they only have doctors, there are no hospital facilities for 3,000 inmates with some held for 32 days rather than the 24-hour maximum, in conditions of fire hazard, infection hazard, every sort of incidental hazard…
