Home Office officials branded the UK’s chief immigration inspector “excessively critical” in internal correspondence before reports emerged that he would effectively be sacked, openDemocracy can reveal.
David Neal, the independent chief inspector of borders and immigration, has been told by home secretary Suella Braverman that he will not be reappointed next year.
Neal last year claimed the Home Office had tried to tone down a report that found its handling of Channel migrant crossings had been “inexcusably awful”.
