When I saw that the Home Office was saying that virtually everybody had either definitely or probably cheated, it crystallised my understanding that something had gone very badly wrong, Timms says.
Surely somebody in the Home Office seeing that should have said: Hang on that can't be right, that over 97% are cheats.' So you have to conclude there must be people in the department who just think: Well, they're foreign, therefore they cheat.' And I think that's part of what went wrong here.
Although he is calm and measured as he talks about what went wrong, he admits to finding the subject very, very distressing.
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