Home Secretary

noun

, British.

Home Secretary

government short for Secretary of State for the Home Department ; the head of the Home Office

First recorded in 1790–1800

They were finally accepted by a Labour Home Secretary, Roy Jenkins, in 1967.

But it now appears that, yes, British Home Secretary Theresa May could well follow through on the ban.

His work finally bore fruit when Theresa May, the current home secretary, announced the formation of the inquiries Monday.

In the long and tense exchange Coulson tells the home secretary that he knows about his affair with Kimberley Quinn.

Paxman suspects that former British Home Secretary Michael Howard had interfered in an internal civil-service disciplinary matter.

George agreed, but as Cornwallis declined the offer Dundas remained home secretary.

He behaved in an extremely quiet manner, nodded to Alberan and bowed to the Home Secretary.

Scarcely had the Home Secretary departed when my maid announced that a patient was waiting to see me in my study.

But I want to know why a Home Secretary meddles with subjects of this sort?

Yet all our penal authorities, from the Home Secretary downwards, know all there is to be known about it.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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