The Cabinet Office will set up a secondary base in Glasgow under PM s plans
Staff received an email yesterday revealing 500 officials will be moved by 2024
The announcement comes only days after it was revealed other departments, including the Treasury, will move staff to cities around the country
The Cabinet Office has over 8,500 staff, supports the PM, is led by Michael Gove
TORY moves to shore up support for the Union show the party is “preparing for a referendum” that they know is unavoidable, the SNP have said. The Telegraph reported yesterday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other senior Tories are engaged in ongoing discussions of how to combat independence support. Among them is Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg’s idea to see the House of Commons sit in the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish parliaments for a fortnight every year. MPs would gather in Holyrood, the Senedd or Stormont with the location changing each year. This would happen in September, when the Commons returns from summer recess.
Boris Johnson’s levelling up agenda is coming to Scotland with the relocation of 500 officials from Michael Gove’s department to a new HQ in Glasgow by 2024. The move to “strengthen our presence and
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