Why the Home Office is ‘dysfunctional’ - Sacked immigration chief speaks out

David Neal was sacked last month from his job as Chief Inspector
of Borders and Immigration for leaking details of critical
reports which ministers had not published. In his first broadcast
interview since then he tells Amol and Nick why he thinks the
Home Office is dysfunctional and in need of urgent reform.


He adds that since his dismissal there is now no one in place to
monitor how ministers implement the Rwanda plan, if it goes
ahead.


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also the current presenter of University Challenge. Nick has
presented the Today programme since 2015, he was the BBC’s
political editor for ten years before that and also previously
worked as ITV’s political editor.


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Morgan and Joe Wilkinson. The editor is Louisa Lewis. The
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