The Energy Department has taken on staff from Labour’s favourite leftist think tank and the TUC. Civil servants not sufficiently left-wing?
As of last month (though prior to Burnham’s ascension) DESNZ said in response to a parliamentary question from Tory MP Charlie Dewhirst:
“An individual from the IPPR (Institute for Public Policy Research) has been seconded to work in Energy Infrastructure Group on industrial strategy.
An individual from the TUC (Trades Union Congress) has been seconded to work in Energy Infrastructure Group on workforce policy.”
The current Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh used to work at IPPR in 2016 and 2017. The think tank boasted last week about how many of its former personnel are inside government now. How much deeper does it go?
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.”