David Neal vs the Home Office

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

Politics, Daily News, News

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Until recently the government's independent chief inspector of borders and immigration, David Neal has been in front of the Home Affairs select committee today to hit out at his erstwhile employers. Cindy Yu talks to Isabel Hardman and Katy Balls on the episode about Neal's abrupt sacking and just how 'independent' an independent inspector can be.

Produced by Cindy Yu.

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0:15.3	Hello and welcome to coffeehouse shots
0:20.0	the Spectators Daily Politics podcast.
0:22.2	I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by Katie Bals and Isabel Hardman.
0:25.9	So it's another day where Lee Anderson is in the headlines. Katie what is the latest update with this
0:30.5	what is this like day four day five of the round now?
0:33.1	I think officially it's day five if we go from the comments on the Friday and we have
0:37.2	made a decision today not to dedicate the entire 10 to 12 minutes of the
0:42.2	podcast to Lee Anderson.
0:43.6	But I think the latest is that the rouse shows no sign of abating.
0:49.2	You had a home office minister this morning cut off in one of his interviews on the LBC because he could not explain Michael Tomlinson
0:58.3	could not explain what exactly Lee Anderson said which was wrong. Let's try this a different way.
1:04.0	Was it Islamophobic?
1:06.0	What he said was wrong and robust action was taken and the whip was removed
1:11.0	within 24 hours.
1:12.0	Minister, was it Islamophobic?
1:14.0	And Nick, it was wrong.
1:16.0	Minister, I'm going to it, and I'm never, I'm normally a very polite man.
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