Government response to flooding was to ‘stare out the window’, Labour says

Keir Starmer met people affected by the floods in Loughborough in Leicestershire on Monday. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Ministers have been accused of doing little more than “staring out of the window and watching the rain come down” as it was revealed that 2,000 homes have been flooded by Storm Henk.

Labour called for a new taskforce to be created that would meet before the winter storms hit to pinpoint the areas most at risk and protect threatened homes and businesses.