Not verbatim: Despite the best efforts of the Government Damian Green MP is here in the Commons today. We have a right to know that the Home Office is riddled with illegal immigrants and that the Home Office - not...

The House of Commons Home Affairs Committee has published it's report on the incident when the Police searched the home and House of Commons Office of Dominic Grieve, the Shadow Immigration Minister. The Telegraph Reports: The damage to national security by a series of Home Office leaks was exaggerated by Government civil servants as they urged police to launch an investigation which led to t...

Back in February, the Lib Dem MP, Paul Burstow asked the Home Office if they would publish the scorecards for the How Safe is your home online questionaire that it hosts. The Home Office duly obliged and placed a copy of all the screenshots in the Commons library. Clearly no one bothered checking the entire document properly, and the civil servant that did the work may not have had sufficient coff...

Asked why there had been talk of the Home Secretary performing a "u-turn" on knife criminals attending A&E, the Prime Minister's Spokesman (PMS) replied that the Home Secretary had made the position quite clear at Home Office Oral Questions. What the Home Secretary and the Home Office had been talking about, and had been clear about throughout, was developing Knife Referral Schemes. These were sch...

It is reported that Michael Martin MP, Speaker of the House of Commons and guardian of its traditions and liberties, personally sanctioned the police raid on Damian Green’s parliamentary office. Whatever the Prime Minister, Home Secretary of Home Office ministers may be saying, it is inconceivable that anti-terror police would have arrested a member of the Shadow Cabinet without the fore-kno...

So Damian Green has been cleared of charges following the very high profile invasion of his office in the House of Commons by police acting on a tip off from the Labour Party. Not only that, but the "mole" behind the leaks has also had charges dropped. There are some very serious questions to be asked and answered by the pathetic Home Secretary and her boss. They may not have broken any laws, but ...

Yvette Cooper MP, Labour's Shadow Home Secretary, said today in the House of Commons in response to Theresa May's statement to the House of Commons on UK border security failings:

The political fallout from the "heavy-handed" police raid on the home of Damian Green - the Conservative shadow Home Office minister accused of receiving leaked documents - is in danger of burying the careers of rival politicians and senior officials. Both the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, and the speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin, are under pressure. "Ms Smith's claim not to kn...

Nick Clegg suffered a rebuke from the Speaker of the House of Commons, a correction by the Home Office and criticism from his Tory colleagues after a tumultuous first prime minister's questions for a Liberal Democrat

In the initial confusion around Damian Green's arrest, a lot of finger-pointing was going on. And certainly, there was some confusion as to whether the Cabinet Office had initiated the whole shambles or whether the Home Office was to blame. It seems to me that the media narrative quickly got shunted into the Home Office frame and I actually wonder if it's not because "Tits" didn't order the raid. ...