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Ministers must be challenged on misleading statements, says former cabinet secretary By Elaine Knutt on 17/03/2021 Former Cabinet Secretary Lord Gus ODonnell. Former cabinet secretary Lord O’Donnell today expressed frustration with ministers who make false statements or skew statistics, a trend he says is eroding public trust in government. Speaking at an online evidence session for the Committee for Standards in Public Life (CSPL) this afternoon, O’Donnell said there should be more emphasi...

The World Health Organisation’s advice at the start of the coronavirus pandemic was clear: “Test, test, test.” Its director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, hammered home the point by saying that contact tracing and isolation should be the “backbone” of each country’s response. On March 12 2020, six days before that warning was issued, Britain had formally abandoned contact tracing. Jenny Harries, the deputy chief medical officer for England, later argued the WHO’s advice was ...

Dominic Cummings had just delivered the news the Prime Minister least wanted to hear. Scribbling in red pen on a whiteboard in Boris Johnson’s office, the PM’s chief adviser had drawn a crude graph to demonstrate that the Government’s analysis of coronavirus had woefully underestimated how quickly it had spread. The NHS would be overwhelmed in as little as three weeks, Mr Johnson was told. “Christ!” the Prime Minister spluttered. “We’ve got to move now on this!” Downing Street i...

11:00 - 12:00: Lord Mark Sedwill KCMG, former Cabinet Secretary 13:00 - 14:00: Lord Gus O’Donnell GCB, former Cabinet Secretary 14:00 - 15:00: Dame Carolyn Fairbairn DBE, former Director General, Confederation of British Industry, and Sir Jonathan Symonds CBE, Non-Executive Chairman, GlaxoSmithKline 15:30 - 16:30: Professor Elizabeth David-Barrett, Director, Centre for the Study of Corruption, University of Sussex, and Daniel Bruce, Chief Executive, Transparency International UK 16:30 - 17:30...

11:00 – 12:00: Lord Mark Sedwill KCMG, former Cabinet Secretary 13:00 – 14:00: Lord Gus O’Donnell GCB, former Cabinet Secretary 14:00 – 15:00: Dame Carolyn Fairbairn DBE, former Director General, Confederation of British Industry, and Sir Jonathan Symonds CBE, Non-Executive Chairman, GlaxoSmithKlein 15:30 – 16:30: Professor Elizabeth David-Barrett, Director, Centre for the Study of Corruption, University of Sussex, and Daniel Bruce, Chief Executive, Transparency International UK 16:30...

RSS demands ‘full review’ of government’s use of health statistics One year on from their Covid-19 action plan, ministers need to start learning lessons, says Royal Statistical Society The charity Full Fact has said there is evidence health secretary Matt Hancock designed some targets retrospectively in a bid to show the government achieving Covid-19 related goals .Photo: Dan Kitwood/REUTERS/Alamy Stock Photo 09 Mar 2021 Ministers need to conduct a full review of the way health statistics...

This article is more than 1 month old The Rutnam saga has been settled, but there needs to be a lot of work to repair government actions of the past year Boris Johnson shaking hands with cabinet secretary Mark Sedwill, who stepped down in September 2020. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Boris Johnson shaking hands with cabinet secretary Mark Sedwill, who stepped down in September 2020. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Tue 9 Mar 2021 08.13 EST Last modified on Tue 9 Mar 2021 08.15 EST The year-long ...

David Lidington, front left, a former minister of state at the Cabinet Office, sits in front of then-prime minister Theresa May. Credit: Jessica Taylor/CC BY 3.0/Wikimedia Commons Brexiteers have long accused civil servants of hampering the UK’s exit from the EU. But new interviews with leading Tory ministers and advisers paint a very different picture – one in which, despite the best efforts of officials, Tory leaders’ miscalculations and in-fighting stymie progress. Adam Branson reports...

https://sputniknews.com/uk/202103061082270717-ex-royal-aide-uk-cabinet-secretary-likely-to-be-drawn-into-toxic-meghan-markle-bullying-probe-/ uckingham Palace announced on Wednesday evening that an investigation would be launched into the “concerning” bullying claims levelled at Meghan Markle, dating to her time at Kensington Palace, further fuelling the royal rift ahead of the Duke And Duchess of Sussex’s “tell-all” interview with Oprah Winfrey, which will air on CBS. Simon Case, the...

Simon Case, the cabinet secretary, could be drawn into the bullying investigation launched amid the royal rift over the Duke and Duchess of Sussex just as the government is facing the challenges of coronavirus, Brexit and Scottish independence. Mr Case may have to answer questions in an investigation announced by Buckingham Palace into allegations of bullying of staff by the duchess. He was told about the allegations, it is claimed, 16 months...