Holding asylum seekers on barges is about ‘fairness’ to UK taxpayer, says Sunak – as it happened

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Back on the PSNI data leak for a second, former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has questioned how the details of PSNI officers and staff were all kept in one system.

What's happened, why it's happened, I don't know, I don't get it - how 10,000 people were all in one system, particularly intelligence people - but I'm sure that will all come out in the wash," PA Media reports he told Newstalk.