The outgoing MP for Maidenhead also described Donald Trump as an ‘unpredictable’ president.
Former prime minister Theresa May has admitted in a documentary that she should have met Grenfell Tower survivors sooner after the 2017 fire.
Speaking during an ITV documentary on her 2016-2019 premiership, Mrs May said of initially not meeting survivors of the June 14 2017 blaze that claimed 72 lives: “I should have gone and met victims. I recognise that.”Her chief of staff, Gavin Barwell, told Theresa May: The Accidental Prime Minister, which will air on ITV1 at 10.25pm on Monday, that her team “got that call badly wrong”.
Mrs May, who served as David Cameron’s home secretary between 2010 and 2016, also admitted that sending out vans with “Go home or face arrest” written on them as part of a Home Office advertising campaign in 2013 targeting illegal immigrants was “wrong”. She said: “We literally were just walking along and he said, ‘There’s a little slope around the corner. Take care.’“And next thing I knew, he was holding my hand as we walked up, and of course, I wasn’t able to reclaim my hand before we got the television cameras of the world upon us.”
Asked if she felt politically-damaging resignations from her Cabinet over Brexit were a betrayal, Mrs May said: “Politics is politics. People had a different view.
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