Why the rush?
Thursday, March 29th, 2007So finally, the Home Office is to be split into two. Great news; we’ve been calling for it for years, and though we’d prefer the Cabinet Office to co-ordinate counter-terrorism efforts, the Ministry of Justice is welcome.
One big caveat, though: why the rush? The whole thing is to be completed by May 9th - just 41 days away.
There couldn’t be a link to the upcoming departure of one Tony Blair, could there? A desire to have the split set in stone before Gordon can get his feet under the table?
There may be other reasons, too, that we can’t talk about yet. But remember over the next week or so just how eager John Reid was to have set the ball rolling on his counter-terrorism reforms.
