I remember that people called him Jackboots Straw.
The realignment of the Home Office and the Lord Chancellor's Department into the remainder of the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice, partly on the back of Charles Clarke (I think) calling the HO not fit for purpose, seemed like a good idea at the time, but list of people who've been…
I remember that people called him Jackboots Straw.
The realignment of the Home Office and the Lord Chancellor's Department into the remainder of the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice, partly on the back of Charles Clarke (I think) calling the HO not fit for purpose, seemed like a good idea at the time, but list of people who've been Justice Secretary isn't a list of people I have positive feelings about, and it seems to have somehow made the Home Office worse.
There definitely seems to be a culture problem that poisons the mind of _anyone_ who becomes Home Secretary, though it doesn't seem like Patel or Braverman needed that much poisoning.
The Home Office needs to go - it would probably need to result in a shuffling of other departments, and I don't fully know what to replace it with, but it needs to be burned to the ground and something better put in its place.
I remember that people called him Jackboots Straw.
The realignment of the Home Office and the Lord Chancellor's Department into the remainder of the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice, partly on the back of Charles Clarke (I think) calling the HO not fit for purpose, seemed like a good idea at the time, but list of people who've been Justice Secretary isn't a list of people I have positive feelings about, and it seems to have somehow made the Home Office worse.
There definitely seems to be a culture problem that poisons the mind of _anyone_ who becomes Home Secretary, though it doesn't seem like Patel or Braverman needed that much poisoning.
The Home Office needs to go - it would probably need to result in a shuffling of other departments, and I don't fully know what to replace it with, but it needs to be burned to the ground and something better put in its place.