A towel has been folded neatly on top of new bedding in anticipation of the arrival of the group of adult males coming by coach from Kent processing centres. The bedrooms have been adapted to provide somewhere to sleep for two to three people in each. The numbers on the blocks are a throwback to the days when this former air base in Essex was also a military police training facility.īlock 1027 has always been used for accommodation at Wethersfield - decades ago it was sergeants' accommodation for American airmen.īut now it will provide somewhere to stay for the first 50 asylum seekers being housed in large sites as part of the government's strategy to reduce costly hotel bills. In recent years a number of ministers and former ministers have taken to blaming "the blob" - a byword for the civil service - for their frustrations over policy, most notably Brexit.Īsked about attacks on the establishment "blob" by current and recent ministers, Mr Case said: "Obviously I don't agree with a characterisation which is insulting, dehumanising, totally unacceptable."īy Lisa Holland, communities correspondent The cabinet secretary said the last five years - spanning the premierships of Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and now Rishi Sunak - had seen a "deterioration in relations between officials and politicians", although he said the situation had improved since Mr Sunak took office. Simon Case, the country's most senior civil servant, said he had witnessed an "increased number of attacks" on the civil service that had "undoubtedly undermined the good functioning of government". Ministers who attack the civil service as "the blob" are guilty of using "dehumanising" language and "self-defeating cowardice", the UK's top mandarin has said.
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Watch the full interview on The Take with Sophy Ridge at 9pm on Sky News. "Look, there are some social media companies that have behaved extremely well over many years, and others, frankly, have questions to answer, so I hope very much that those who are struggling with understanding their social responsibilities will be thinking hard about how they respond."
The minister sharply condemned Twitter, saying: "I think that is a remarkable thing to have sent and certainly not appropriate. Sophy Ridge noted that when Twitter was approached for comment, they sent back a poo emoji. Mr Tugendhat was also asked if social media companies are doing enough to protect people's right to the presumption of innocence. "And so, it is important that we respect the rule of law and we respect the principles that we have set out of many hundreds of years to protect every citizen so that we can get fair trials and those who are guilty can be properly tried and properly sentenced."
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He said: "I think one of the things we've always got to be careful of is trial by social media, and that's not just because, of course, people are innocent until they are proven guilty, but it's also because in some circumstances, if the allegations were to lead to a criminal trial, you don't want that trial to be prejudiced by things people may have said in public, or the way in which a jury may have been influenced. Speaking to The Take with Sophy Ridge (due to air at 9pm on Sky News), the security minister was asked if it is right that Huw Edwards' name was in the public domain. Government minister Tom Tugendhat has condemned Twitter for its response to media inquiries as the identity of the then-unnamed BBC presenter was widely circulating on Twitter.
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