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Zombie Suella looked like a dead minister walking this Hallowe’en

With no frontbench support, the Home Secretary had a devil of a job replying to Labour’s criticism over Manston asylum centre

On a spooky Hallowe’en, the Parliament canteen served “Dracula’s Steak and Chips”, and the Home Secretary delivered a statement dressed in devilish red.

She cut a lonely figure. None of the big fish turned out to support her; Tory MPs listened in silence. Suella B resigned only two weeks ago over a leak, was reappointed by the new PM in exchange (we suspect) for her endorsement, and now faces the sack over Hellish conditions at the Manston asylum centre.

From the view in the gallery, she didn’t look like a devil but a zombie, a dead minister walking, lashing out at her own civil servants in search of a brain to digest.

The key questions are, to quote Yvette Cooper: did the Home Secretary block sending refugees to hotels and did she ignore legal advice against keeping them at Manston? “I have never ignored legal advice,” replied Suella and “never blocked” the use of hotels; “9,500” people were transferred out under her watch to 30 such establishments. These places can cost £150 a night, she added, and “by my standards, that’s quite a nice hotel” (she’s clearly never stayed in an overpriced Ibis).

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