Starmer ‘angry’ over 'mess left from last government’

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Sir Keir Starmer says he is "frustrated and angry" after being left with "a mess by the last government" following a report on Home Office failings over asylum accommodation. The prime minister made the remarks as he landed in Ankara, Turkey on Monday.  Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Well, we inherited a huge mess in relation to pretty well all departments in government

00:07and that includes the Home Office.

00:09If you take the issue of asylum hotels for example, we had years under the previous government

00:14where they didn't process claims.

00:16So tens of thousands of people didn't have their claims processed, they were then housed

00:20in hotels, that was the policy of the last government, there were 400 at the height of

00:25it, it's now about 200.

00:26I'm determined that we will close those hotels, we're processing the claims much more quickly

00:32and where people have got no right to be in our country, we're removing them, but a higher

00:35rate than the best part of a decade, so we're taking the action, but I can't tell you how

00:40frustrated and angry I am that we've been left with a mess as big as this by the last government.

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