Damian Green's Christmas promise

Immigration Minster Damian Green said something in a committee hearing today which we should not let him forget.

He was being questioned about the detention of children at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Centre, Bedfordshire.

When asked how confident he was that there would be no more children there within a year he said he was very confident.

He was so confident, in fact, that he said if there was a single child there in December 2010 then he would dress up as Santa Claus and deliver presents to them – in a way I’d actually quite like to see that.