Priti Patel gets ‘storm’ warning over senior civil servant clashes
David Normington, who served under five home secretaries, says timetable for new immigration system will be ‘tight’
A former chief civil servant at the Home Office has warned that the department is in the grip of a number of “tropical storms” amid reports of clashes between Priti Patel and her chief mandarin.
Sir David Normington, a former permanent secretary who served under five ministers at the Home Office, also warned that the government’s timetable for a new immigration system would be “tight”.
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