There's a longer story on the Guardian site about the UK Home Office and how dysfunctional and reactive it has become, its managers far more fearful of a Daily Mail headline about not locking enough people up than a Guardian headline, or even the opinion of a judge, about injustices: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/may/13/cruel-paranoid-failing-priti-patel-inside-the-home-office