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Christian Jones is leaving after two years with the royal family Later on, in September, Catherine Quinn and Simon Case left if 2019 and 2020 respectively Commenting on his appointment, Simon said: "It is an honour to be appointed as Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service. Over these few months of working on the Covid response, I have seen how much hard work is being done by the Civil Service to support the government and our country through unprecedented times. It is a privilege to c...

19 Jan 2021 Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be happy to see President Donald Trump leave the White House, the former head of Britain’s Civil Service said on Monday. Lord Mark Sedwill was, until his departure in September, the Cabinet Secretary, making him the highest-ranking civil servant in the country. He said that it would be “mistaken” to believe that Mr Johnson would have preferred a Trump victory in the presidential election. Writing in the Daily Mail, Lord Sedwill said: “Based...

BORIS JOHNSON has given Donald Trump the cold shoulder as the President leaves office, refusing to wish him well in retirement or offer a suggestion for his biggest achievement in office.

Former cabinet secretary says those who claimed PM would have preferred Biden to lose US election were “mistaken”

Downing Street today insisted Boris Johnson would have a strong relationship with whoever occupies the White House after Mark Sedwill claimed the PM did not want Donald Trump to win.

Your enemy is not Newscorp, or cheapskate Tories, Brussels, looney Labour, Brexit, Covid19 or recession. Your enemy is now the people they work for. All the power-links point the same way. Don’t be duped any more by national legislator promises that can’t be fulfilled: this is now a cause way beyond regional politics. Look instead for powerful and decent allies with whom to unite against the repression of the Gigarich Blob. Mark Carney became Governor of the Bank of England in 2012. Two yea...

Changes made in 2020 "shouldn’t be mistaken for a programme of civil service reform", Ciaran Martin writes

Highlights US has warned of the risk posed by Chinese telecom companies like Huawei and ZTE The US government also announced that all ‘American carriers will have to remove all Huawei manufactured equipment from their infrastructure. NEW DELHI: In the past year, Chinese telecom giant Huawei has been accused of colluding with the Chinese government and sharing private user data with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The international community has now become aware of the dangers posed by not...

In this specially extended Slog essay, we examine the all too familiar micro elements that make PHE an at best dubious NGO, the dysfunctional Whiteminster judgements that attract little or no respect, and the geopolitical machinations involved that exploit and exaggerate citizen fears of death that are at best unlikely and at worst delusional. But the chief learning here is that Covid19 is nothing more than a weapon for something far worse than death. Throughout PHE’s mercifully brief life, t...

Treasury head Tom Scholar reappointed after year of perm secs churn Second five-year term comes despite Scholars appearance on reported No.10 "hit list" of top civil servants to be replaced Photo: Parliament TV Scholars reappointment, first reported by the Telegraph, comes after a year in which he has led the governments financial response to coronavirus. It comes despite reports that he had appeared on a "hit list" of perm secs that No.10 was keen to replace last year. Scholar is now the only...