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Ferrari asks Streeting about his New Statesman interview comments complaining about the government’s “technocratic” approach.

Streeting says there are a lot of good things that the government is doing. But people don’t always appreciate them.

Now, if a serial killer had killed over 60 children in our country over that length of time, it would be splashed on the front of every newspaper. We would remember the name of that killer for the rest of our lives.

But in this case, children are quietly dying. Their parents do not have a megaphone or a microphone, and they are dying in shabby temporary accommodation.