David Neal's reports show the Tories have completely lost their grip on borders and immigration.
I asked the Minister if he believes everything is perfectly fine in the Home Office, or if he recognised that the only hope of ending the chaos is a change in government. pic.twitter.com/RFmXPQkFEC
— Chi Onwurah ???? (@ChiOnwurah) March 5, 2024
HANSARD
(Newcastle upon Tyne Central) (Lab)
As chair of the all-party parliamentary group for Africa, I met David Neal a number of times. He was incredibly impressive, robust, well-informed, all over the detail, and entirely independent. It beggars belief that the Government ignored his reports for so long—publication is essential for scrutiny—sacked him over Teams, and dumped all the reports out at once. Does the Minister believe that the Home Office is so perfect, and that everything is going so well, that it should be above scrutiny? Or is it more the case that everything is going so badly, including on Rwanda, the asylum backlog and our border security, that there is no hope of improvement until we have a change of Government?