Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds and Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith share their concern after Manchester Arena bomb plotter Hashem Abedi attacked prison officers with boiling oil and improvised weapons at HMP Frankland. Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Incredibly troubling story and as someone who lives in Greater Manchester and is a Greater Manchester MP,
00:05the connection to the arena bombing, it's a very emotive issue.
00:10Clearly, first of all, thoughts have got to be with the officers affected and their families.
00:14This will be an incredibly difficult time, but there'll have to be a proper investigation,
00:19a police investigation into what has happened, what we've got to be ensuring at all times.
00:23We're doing everything to keep any public sector worker, particularly in sensitive areas like prisons,
00:28safe and secure, and we're going to need to respond to this when we have more information.
00:33Well, my thoughts are with the prison officers impacted.
00:36It's very worrying that we hear stories about prisoners running wings, taking control,
00:42and the prison officers not being in control of our prisons.
00:46So we obviously need to get to the bottom of the facts.
00:48There should be some inquiry as to what happened, how this dangerous, dangerous terrorist prisoner
00:53was ever in a position to be able to injure our brave prison officers.