The Home Secretary's Office

Every morning, whenever she's not in her constituency, pretty battel arrives at marsham street. She goes through security and up to her office on the third floor. It's a very impersonal place in there - imagine a kind of corporate law firm with a heavy mahogany desk. And facing that desk is a white board with prettypatel's top priorities. Top of the list, number n is stop the small boat crossings. Staff are told to think about whether any correspondents or emales could appear on the front page of the mail. One former aid said they would deliver up dates into the home secretary's office, return to their desk and wait for an explosion.