Asylum Application Numbers Fell N During Your Tenure as Home Secretary

When i first walked in in june two thousand and one, we were in the old building at queen anne's gate. And it was almost a metaphor, because the building was falling apart. The bits of the roof were coming off. The windows didn't fit. The lifts didn't work half the time. So it was a rude beginning so when you consider the policies which really marked your tenure as home secretary in relation to asylum seekers, did you come away feeling that they were successful in both policy and political terms for the government? In part, political terms, is almost impossible to be satisfied, because you have complete opposites and a total divide. You find yourself caught in the