"Shameful and embarrassing" that Home Secretary won't address Parliament over Police records loss - Nick Thomas-Symonds

Monday, 18 January 2021 12:53

Nick Thomas-Symonds MP, Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary, commenting on Priti Patel’s decision not to give a statement on the significant data loss from the Police National Computer, said: “It’s shameful - and, frankly, embarrassing - for the Home Secretary not to come to Parliament today. “It’s an abject failure of leadership and dereliction of duty not to grip a crisis that has seen 400,000 records deleted and criminals set to walk free.”...Request free trial