article_snippet: This is despite the way a supposedly impartial £19million-a-year taxpayer-funded quango has been repeatedly used by foreign criminals and terrorists to avoid deportation.
article_snippet: But senior Conservative Party figures view the commission’s intervention as a nakedly political act.
article_snippet: As a quango, in receipt of £18.7million of public money last year, it is supposed to remain outside the political fray.
article_snippet: Government sources said Government sources had not even got Government sources facts right.
article_snippet: But a senior government source said:
article_snippet: ‘This taxpayer-funded quango of Labour’s creation is deliberately trying to play politics on the eve of an election.
article_snippet: This is grossly improper so close to an election from a quango which receives millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money.
article_snippet: Tory MPs blasted the online statement, calling the online statement a nakedly political act, which had got the online statement facts wrong.
article_snippet: The commission’s intervention shows just how politicised this self-serving quango has become.
highlights_snippet: Conservatives attacked quango for 'deliberately trying to play politics' 