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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