[Jamie89]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

Well look,I am now a staunch Labour supporter however they were the govt.then
Ann was only shadow Home Secretary,who takes much notice of shadow ministers really,even if they should.

It's the Labour Home Secretary of the time who should have to give some answers to that issue.

Just as now, it should be the serving Home Secretary who gets the flack on issues as bad as that.
Not the opposition spokesmen/women.

So it wasn't Ann's responsibility to do anything about it, but could she have done something about it? Genuine question, I'm not sure about much of this tbh, and that seems to be what Maggie was getting at... she's just stated on BOTS with some certainty that Ann could have done something to stop it.