A top civil servant today told MPs there is nothing more the Home Office loves "than a good crisis", before apologising for using "overly flippant words".
Matthew Rycroft was quizzed by the Commons Home Affairs Committee, and asked why there "always seems to be a crisis going on" in the department.
He confidently told MPs: "You may recall when the Home Secretary and I set up a transformation programme for the Home Office, called One Home Office, one of the things that we were seeking to unlock was the sense in the department that we do go from crisis to crisis.
