Starmer’s stinging attack on civil servants in yesterday’s reset has already generated a lot of bad blood. Labour is now briefing that Cummings was right…
FDA union General Secretary Dave Penman complained on Newsnight that Starmer’s “trumpian” language was “just astonishing” and that he should have said civil servants do brilliant work, need to do more of it, and that he needs to take them with him. Appeasement…
By this morning’s round Labour is already scaling back its assault on Whitehall. Nick Ferrari asked Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook if “too many people in Whitehall
are comfortable in the tepid bath of managed decline.“ Turns out Pennycook only had nice things to say…
“I have come across some of the most dedicated committed professional people I have ever worked with. He’s not wrong, but I think we have to ask the Civil Service to do things differently, we have to take the civil service with us on a journey to do government in a slightly different way… I haven’t experienced any particular civil servant in a tepid bath of declinism – they share our ambition.”
So much for the combative stance. Safe to say Starmer’s not the new Dom…
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”