It should be noted this meeting was in the middle of a political crisis where half the government had resigned. I don't know who those MPs were or what they wer

It should be noted this meeting was in the middle of a political crisis where half the government had resigned. I don't know who those MPs were or what they were doing, but I'm betting they suddenly found themselves overloaded with this crisis and this meeting fell through. It's not that uncommon for something like this to happen. I'm not saying it's great this happened, but it happens – MPs are humans too. I wouldn't be so quick to judge in this case. I think the extremely high expectations and little room for error ("they should just be sacked") is part of the problem. If you bollock a child every time they do something slightly wrong they will learn to lie and hide things very quickly.