Home secretary faces continued pressure over overcrowding at facility

Still on the morning broadcast round, immigration minister Robert Jenrick batted away questions on whether people across the country could face tax rises for years to come as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak looks to address a black hole of up to £50 billion in the public finances.

He told BBC Breakfast:

I’m afraid you’re going to have to wait for the chancellor’s statement in just a couple of weeks.

That will be the moment where he will set out the tax changes that he needs to make to ensure that we command the confidence of the financial markets, we get the public finances back into good order.

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