dereliction

Last year, a government commissioned report concluded Thurrock, which at the time was run by a Conservative administration, lost "substantial sums of public money" because of systemic weaknesses and a "dereliction" in leadership.

He said: "The council took the hall over in the 1990s and in these last 20-plus years, it has fallen into complete dereliction, so for us to reverse that and restore the building to its former glory was an incredible challenge."

McConnell had said that Trump’s conduct on 6 January was “a disgraceful dereliction of duty”, but he chose not to take the one step that could have conclusively ended the former president’s political career – perhaps out of fear of effectively ending his own.

It would almost be a dereliction of duty if it were otherwise, but time is now running out to crystallise thoughts on what is arguably the biggest single decision the organisation has to take.

“There is a dereliction of duty by the government in Los Angeles, in California,” she says in her video.