Maitlis asked: "Prime minister, you’ve come here today to the BBC instead of doing the interview at the site where you just were, why is that?"



To which May replied: "What I want to talk about today is what the government is making available to the victims of this absolutely horrendous tragedy."

Maitlis asked: "Do you accept you misread the public mood on this one, you misread the anger that people feel about this? They shouted coward at you this afternoon when you left St Clement’s."



May answered: "What I have done since this incident took place is first of all yesterday ensure that the public services had the support they needed in order to do the job they were doing in the immediate aftermath."



"But that’s three days on prime minister, this is Friday evening, they needed those things in place on Wednesday," Maitlis said. "There were people we spoke to who were housed for one night, didn’t know where they’d spend the next night, had no money to spend on food, and were not told anything by anyone, no one was in charge."

May replied: "What I have done today is ensured that we are as a government putting that funding in place for people in the area, this has been an absolutely terrifying experience."

Maitlis asked once more: "I ask you again, do you accept though that you misread the public mood, the level of anger? You didn’t go and meet residents and they really resented that."

To which the prime minister answered: "This was a terrible tragedy that took place, people have lost their lives and others have lost everything, all their possessions, their home and everything, what we are doing is putting in place the support that will help them."