‘Chief Secretary to the PM’ Darren Jones briefed to the Times that he was creating a ‘Command Unit’ nerve centre in the Cabinet Office to monitor various situations. So laughable was the proposal that the piece only appeared in print…
The unit – or rearranged desks – sits in the rooms previously occupied by Rayner’s Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, which David Lammy didn’t get to keep hold of. Some ideas were presented for how to spend ‘command centre’ redesign budget…
Guido hears Jones was given £500,000 to play with to design his unit. Government sources say one of the primary proposals for how to spend that cash was for £300,000 to go on raising the ceiling. This is the guy who wants to cut waste…
Individuals inside the building report that the layout is as set out above but the unit itself is wasting away. When do we get to see the results of all that delivery?
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood introduced her speech on migration reforms at the IPPR:
“There’s no denying we meet at a difficult time for my party.”
