Powers of the Realm · Crown & government

Crown & government

Home Office

The ministry's department of internal order, county reporting, certain policing arrangements, public emergency coordination and embarrassing domestic questions that begin as local failures and end at Westminster.

Named with it

Ties

  • part of the Ministry

At the table

Rooke treats rumour as useless until three independent clerks have written it down; critics accuse him of governing by files, informants and private intelligence.