Home Secretary John Reid has damned his departments immigration operation as "not fit for purpose" with "inadequate" leadership and management systems.
Other failings showed the Home Office could be "dysfunctional" and "wholesale transformation" was "probably" needed.
Although he did not rule out splitting the Home Office, he told MPs there was some logic to its current structure.
The Conservatives said they were not convinced the home secretary could sort the problems out.
Labour ex-minister John Denham meanwhile called Mr Reids comments "a fairly stark assessment of the state of the Home Office".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5007148.stmLooks like Reid is at least being truthful but how much can they do about it?
