Thousands of homes in Cornwall still without power or water days after Storm Goretti

Lib Dem MP hits out at Commons speaker for failing to grant him right to call for national emergency response

Thousands of homes in the south-west of England were still without power or water on Monday in the aftermath of Storm Goretti.

It has been four days since Goretti brought gusts of almost 100mph and a rare red warning for “dangerous, stormy” winds, but the continued disruption has led one Cornish MP to call for a “national emergency”.