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Are There Any Signs of Change Coming From the Home Office?

There is a nascent rebellion of people working inside the department at the moment, and they're called our home office. They've set up this anonymous twitter account. There's an internal messaging board as well,. The most senior civil servant at the home office hosts these sort of internal question sessions where he takes anonymous questions from staff. And one of the most popular questions that i saw was, why should this not apply to people fleeing war and persecution in other parts of the world? Another person said, shame, embarrassment and anger is what i and many others feel. I think it's completely unprecedented. It feels like there's real momentum with more requests coming from all over the u k for posters and

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