Announced today, Second Permanent Secretary in the Cabinet Office Clara Swinson will move to the DoJ to be Second Permanent Secretary under Lammy. A horizontal move like that often says something in Whitehall…
Swinson was not a popular figure among some government sources in the Cabinet Office, who view her as a blocker along with Darren Jones, Permanent Secretary Catherine Little, and now ex-Cabinet Secretary Chris Wormald. A clear out ongoing…
One of Antonia Romeo’s main jobs as the new Cabinet Secretary will be to fix the failing Cabinet Office, which runs a large part of government. No one has managed it so far…
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.”