No wonder the Home Office is such a mess

In the last few days, we’ve seen a succession of current and former Home Secretaries insist that the government should go ahead with a piece of legislation that detailed pre-legislative scrutiny found was deeply flawed – the Draft Communications Data Bill.

No wonder the Home Office is consistently in such a mess if their response to detailed cross-party examination finding an idea to be so badly misplaced is to say, “Go ahead, anyway’.