Chris Wormald has been appointed as the new Cabinet Secretary and head of the Civil Service after Simon Case resigned citing “health conditions.” Wormald, who’s been Permanent Secretary at the Department of Health and Social Care since 2016, had already stepped in for Case while he was ill. He was PermSec at the Department for Education for four years before that. Now he’s got the top job…
Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”