Home Office has ‘culture of defensiveness’, sacked borders watchdog warns
Border security at UK airports is neither “effective nor efficient”, the immigration watchdog warned as he described a Home Office “culture of defensiveness” in a series of reports produced before he was fired.
The criticism from David Neal was set out in stark terms among a raft of reports the Government department finally published on Thursday in the wake of his sacking, after months of delays.
The former chief inspector of borders and immigration’s exit came after he was embroiled in a row with the Home Office about concerns he was raising in a report submitted over security checks at airports – one of two outstanding documents still yet to be published by the Home Office.
The newspaper reported failed to check the occupants of hundreds of high-risk, private jets arriving at London City Airport – but the department disputed the figures.
