Unless strategies are tested in comparable situations whether they are "right" or not will always be a matter of opinion. I would rather trust the opinions of the professionals at the Home Office than the editors of competing tabloids trying to sell newspaper. If such a report hasn't been released it must have been because it was considered not in the public interest to do so.

Compare that to Johnson's decision not to release the Intelligence Committee's report into Russian interference in the 2016 referendum prior to the 2019 election! That was 100% in the government's interest.

But it hasn’t been released to the minister responsible so whose decision is it? The Home Office or a member of Parliament?

I have no idea at what level the decision has been taken but assume at PM or Cabinet level. Nothing I have seen suggests that it has been withheld from the Home Secretary but with if what is being suggested about Patel is only half true then maybe it is.

I don't know anymore than anyone else what the research has discovered but I can well understand the need for some things to be kept away from the headline writers and thought through quietly and away from the glare of instant responses.

The papers have nothing to do with it. This is the minister responsible for the department concerned.

I covered that. I have not seen anything that suggests Patel has not been kept informed, indeed I cannot see how that could be done, but from what is being suggested can see what it might be wise.

All the reports I have read are about the decision not to publish or respond to a FOI request on the grounds of the public interest not being served to do so.

That sounds like Mr. Spock. Are you saying that anyone living in close proximity to certain events is too emotionally invested to have an opinion? I’ve never lived in Cornwall - does that mean I know more about what to change, and how everyone should react to everything, than the people who do?