‘Haven’t a clue!’ Top Tory attacks Home Office bosses over ‘staggering’ failure to give asylum figures
by Adam Forrest
Nov 29, 2023
3 minutes
Senior Conservative Lee Anderson has lambasted Home Office chiefs for their “staggering” failure to provide figures on the faltering asylum system to a group of MPs.
The deputy Tory chair said “the big boss hasn’t got a clue” during an awkward grilling of the department’s permanent secretary Sir Matthew Rycroft.
It came as Sir Matthew and his Home Office deputy made the bombshell admission that they simply do not know what has happened to 17,000 asylum seekers whose claims have been withdrawn.
Senior MPs on the home affairs
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