HOME Office pen-pushers battling Britain’s illegal migrant crisis are still working from home.
This is despite a record 38,000 people arriving in small boats so far this year.
The asylum system costs £2.4billion per year — including a daily £5.6million housing bill.
But that has not stopped recruiters at the underfire government department offering hybrid roles — part in office and part at home.
The Home Office — headed up by re-appointed Suella Braverman — is advertising £40,000-a-year jobs for WFH staff to tackle the immigrant backlog.
Borders and Enforcement teams in Leeds, Glasgow and Croydon are advertising “hybrid” posts.
David Spencer at the Centre for Crime Prevention said: “You have to question whether those working from home have access to the resources to make quick and informed decisions.
“The relaxed approach hardly sends a message to voters that an issue that matters deeply is being taken seriously.”
A Home Office spokeswoman said: “Flexible and hybrid working within the civil service is not new; it has been common practice for some time.”
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