Therese Coffey’s comments to the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee have been turned into a hilarious Ant and Dec sketch on social media.
The Environment Secretary suggested the damage done by Storm Babet was harder to predict because rain came in from the east in a statement that has been widely lampooned.
She told MPs a “rapid review” would be conducted after highlighting that some flood-hit UK communities felt they could have been given more pumps to stop them from becoming submerged.
Giving evidence, Coffey told MPs: “One of the things that happened particularly with Storm Babet is that we are very good, with the Met Office and the Environment Agency’s flood forecasting (centre), at predicting weather normally because most of our rain tends to come in from the west.
“We’ve got that pretty much down to a fine art.
“This was rain coming from the other way and we don’t have quite as much experience on that, therefore our accuracy of predicting where such heavy rain would fall was not to the same degree as if it had been.”
Watch the (slightly edited) version of her appearance here:
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