Home office shake-up or Whitehall farce?
While the government rightly looks to lighten the onerous burden of responsibility placed on the Home Office, hasty reforms do not bode well for the insurance industry
Labour's plans to split the Home Office in two by creating a fully fledged Ministry of Justice out of the existing Department of Constitutional Affairs has all the hallmarks of a classic "act in haste, repent at leisure" political manoeuvre.
This latest Whitehall shake-up seems to have started life as a reaction to the perceived failings of the Home Office in a whole range of areas from prison management to counter-terrorism. Few people seem to doubt that the Home Office's present portfolio is
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