According to the FT, former Cabinet Secretary Chris Wormald received a staggering £500,000 payout after Starmer sacked him in February. A record sum which is almost double the expected amount, and paid by the taxpayer. Thanks Keir…
His sudden departure after just 14 months in the job – once Starmer decided he’d made the wrong decision in appointing him – is the reason it is so unbelievably high. Starmer himself will have personally signed it off. He also gave Wormald a peerage. He may as well have asked for a Ferrari, a private jet, and a mansion. Starmer was happy to hand over anything to see him gone, so long as the taxpayer footed the bill…
Robert Jenrick on the Today programme:
“Can you now give a guarantee to your listeners this morning that no BBC presenter in the future will be exposed as a paedophile, as a number have been in the recent past? No, of course you can’t…”