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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason, Whitehall correspondent

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Should the home office be broken up into two units - Caught on Camera

A sign displaying Home Office and UK Visas and Immigration
Many Home Office alumni and experts believe that improved leadership and culture change would be more effective than a structural reorganisation. Photograph: Justin Kase zfivez/Alamy

“It’s not that the Home Office is too big. It’s that the brains of many of the people who run it are not big enough,” says one former departmental insider.

Unwieldy, dysfunctional and plagued by poor morale, the Home Office is once again the subject of debate about whether it is beyond repair and should simply be chopped up into two more manageable units.

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