understand, ahead of the border agency said this, brody clark admitted to me on the second of november that on a number of occasions this year he authorized his staff to go further than ministerial action. i therefore suspended him from his duties. in my opinion it was right for officials who have recommended the pilot so we focus attention on high risk to our border, but it is unacceptable that when my senior officials went further an was approved. that is why he was suspended. that is why the home secretary back to that decision. it's important issue to understand that brody clark was suspended by the head of the u.k. border agency. it was efficient quite rightly taken by him back by the home secretary back to bite me. >> ed miliband. >> isn't it typical, mr. speaker, when things go wrong it has nothing to do with them? [shouting] >> order, ordr.

but it's an important issue to understand that brody clark was suspended ahead of the u.k. border agency. it was a decision quite rightly taken by him, backed by the home secretary, backed by me. >> isn't it utterly typical, mr. speaker, when things go wrong, it's nothing to do with them. >> order, order, just before the gentleman continues, let me just emphasize, there were members on both sides of the house shouting their heads off, members of the youth parliament last friday who spoke -- order, order! who spoke brilliantly and passionately disagreed with each other but they didn't shout at each other. mr. ed miliband. >> mr. speaker, mr. speaker, what did the home secretary say in the pub when she was in opposition when things went wrong on immigration? she said this, i'm sick and tired of government ministers who simply blame other people when things go wrong. now -- now, the prime minister said yesterday in his evidence to the liaison committee about the relaxation of border patrols in the last few months, and i quote, clearly not acceptable and is not acceptable it we

brody clark had a chance to answer back.ling mps at first, at least, that it simply was not true. what went wrong on the border has descended into a blame game. theresa has insisted her story was defied. she had allowed border officers to do fewer checks on certain groups, as -- such as children, but refused to suspend a fingerprint checks. berdych clark admitted that controls were relaxed, including fingerprint check in, 50 times in just three months. he said under another policy, airport safety pauses -- bosses could wait checks to avoid the weighting of -- could wave checks to avoid the weighting of passengers in crowded airports. >> shafter pass all of the information, including instructions to the border agency. >> and brody clark is not going to go quietly. therese the main is fast learning that hell hath no fury like an official scorned. bbc news, westminster. >> this is newsday on the bbc. i am in singapore. >> i am in london. a judge in new york has a rejected an attempt by anti- will street demonstrators to restart

it's important issue to understand that brody clark was suspended by the head of the u.k. border agency. it was efficient quite rightly taken by him back by the home secretary back to bite me. >> ed miliband. >> isn't it typical, mr. speaker, when things go wrong it has nothing to do with them? [shouting] >> order, order. let me just emphasize that our members on both sides of the house shouting their heads off. members of the youth parliament last friday spoke -- order. order. spoke brilliantly and passionately, disagreed with each other but they didn't shout at each other. mr. ed miliband. >> now mr. speaker, mr. speaker, what did the home secretary say in the past when she was in opposition when things went wrong with immigration? she said i'm sick and tired of government ministers who simply blame other people when things go wrong. [laughter] the prime minister, the prime minister said yesterday about the relaxation of border control in the last few months, and i quote, clearly it's not acceptable and it's not acceptable it went on for so long. mr. speaker, why did the

it's important issue to understand that brody clark was suspended by the head of the u.k. border agency. it was efficient quite rightly taken by him back by the home secretary back to bite me. >> ed miliband. >> isn't it typical, mr. speaker, when things go wrong it has nothing to do with them? [shouting] >> order, ordr. let me just emphasize that our members on both sides of the house shouting their heads off. members of the yth parliamen last friday spoke -- order. order. spoke brilliantly and passionately, disagreed with each other but they didn't shout at each other. mr. ed miliband. >> now mr. speaker, mr. speaker, what did the home secretary say in the past when she was in opposition when things went wrong with immigration? [laughter] the prime minister, the prime minister said yesterday about the relaxation of border control in the last few months, and i quote, clearly it's not acceptable and it's not acceptable it went on for so long. mr. speaker, why did the home secretary -- spent on the one hand you can't blame you for not take response the and and quote very cl

prodi clark -- brody clark has been suspended.nother man has been suspended, and another at -- a number of other people. stafford told at certain times -- staff were told at certain times not to check passports. it has a picture of your face inside it and that can be used on the screen to compare with your printed version. to tell of the passport is fake. it is a good check. what the home office does not know is when this is scaled down, why and what the security implications might be. it is a pretty serious security incident for the home office. they have ordered to investigations. want to find out what the risks were and an investigation into the u.k. border agency. the home secretary reaction is set to be in credulity. >> you can get more on all of our stories by going to our website. have a look for yourself. >> the greek prime minister has narrowly won a confidence vote. he has promised to put together a coalition to save the latest bailout deal. a huge crashed in southwest england has injured at least 40 people. several are

brody clark resigned last week saying he had been unfairly blamed. he is now being questioned by the home of the select committee. very quickly, give us a background. >> over the summer, as many of us have experienced, airports and ports across britain. it turns out that passport checks were watered down to make the lines go away. this has now turned into a he- said-she-said dispute. she said she agreed to some wondered down, she did not for those outside the eu. that is directly conflicting with what this very senior public service is saying. he is saying he is in no rogue official and everything he did is in accordance with existing policy. >> immigration is one of the issues.ch-tone how damaging could this be? >> one of the newspapers last week showed a cartoon of osama bin laden walking untroubled through passport control. the damage, in a sense, has already been done. david cameron has made a lot of political play over immigration. in particular, accusing the last government of being too lax. it's a very sensitive issue. when you ask voters what