Former advisor to Theresa May Nick Timothy returns to the Home Office after being called in by Suella Braverman for a ‘nuts and bolts’ review of the department
- Former chief of staff Nick Timothy has been asked to review the Home Office
- It comes ahead of imminent overhaul of immigration laws to stop small boats
- The wide-ranging review comes after a series of scandals in the department
Theresa May’s former adviser Nick Timothy is to return to the Home Office to undertake a ‘nuts and bolts’ review of the under-fire department.
The former chief of staff to the then prime minister has been called in to look at the effectiveness of the operation, the Mail on Sunday has learned.
It comes ahead of an imminent overhaul of immigration laws to deliver on Rishi Sunak’s pledge to stop small boats.
Theresa May’s former adviser Nick Timothy is to return to the Home Office to undertake a ‘nuts and bolts’ review of the under-fire department
Nick Timothy’s review comes ahead of an imminent overhaul of immigration laws to deliver on Rishi Sunak’s pledge to stop small boats
Mr Timothy has been brought in to ‘review the effectiveness of the department’ by Home Secretary Suella Braverman.
The aide, who also worked in the Home Office when Mrs May was Home Secretary, will carry out an overview to see where the department can be improved.
The wide-ranging review comes after a series of scandals at the Home Office.
Last year, thousands of people were prevented from leaving Kent immigration processing centre Manston, leading to overcrowding and outbreaks of disease.
Mrs Braverman was accused of refusing to allow hotels to be booked for the new arrivals.
She has recently been reappointed to the job she was sacked from after admitting leaking government documents.
This week, the Home Office admitted that 200 unaccompanied children seeking asylum had disappeared from hotels.
Immigration minister Robert Jenrick is expected to visit the Brighton hotel at the centre of the reports next week to get to the bottom of the issue amid claims that civil servants had not kept ministers informed about the problem.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman called in Nick Timothy after a series of department scandals
Last month, Mr Timothy wrote a think tank report calling for a major crackdown on asylum seekers who enter Britain illegally.
He suggested that human rights laws should be changed and said the country should leave the European Convention on human rights ‘if necessary’ to stop the small boats.
Mrs Braverman welcomed the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) report, but said she did not agree with all aspects of it.
Mrs May’s aides Mr Timothy and Fiona Hill – known as ‘Nick and Fi’ – were her gatekeepers when she was both home secretary and prime minister and were feared and respected across Westminster.
Mr Timothy was branded Rasputin by MPs due to his resemblance to the Russian mystic and his hold over Mrs May.
He was forced to quit after the disastrous 2017 election having penned Mrs May’s manifesto which included the fatal ‘dementia tax’ policy.
In a speech last year, Mr Sunak vowed to pass new laws that would prevent anyone who arrives illegally in Britain to not be able to remain.
He said this new law would mean that people could be ‘detained and swiftly returned’ to their home country or somewhere else – including Rwanda.
The imminent changes to the immigration system are expected to be less of a ‘rabbit out of a hat’ and more a radical new approach by those working on them.
They are expected in the coming weeks.
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