Home Office is where the heart is, for the man with a spring in his step

Home Office is where the heart is, for the man with a spring in his step

ConservativeHome’s Editor sat down with shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp in Manchester during the party Conference Talk to any number of previous Home Secretaries, Labour or Conservative, and they’ll privately describe their former department in the same slightly crude fashion. “It’s the Department of ‘shit happens’.” They don’t mean it in a way that implies a shrug, and move on. No, It’s literally the department where real life, consequential,…