Six of the seven Treasury ministers have a spouse, partner or family member in the Civil Service, according to the latest List of Ministers’ Interests. John Healey, Lucy Rigby and Lord Pitt-Watson each declare a Civil Servant family member. James Murray and Dan Tomlinson have a Civil Servant partner, and Torsten Bell has both. Emma Reynolds is the only exception…
A further 11 ministers across government declare Civil Servant relatives, including Shabana Mahmood, Dame Diana Johnson and Baroness Ramsey, who each have two. Any taxpayer hoping Healey will take an axe to a bloated Whitehall next Wednesday should bear this in mind. Temper expectations…
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…”