Harry Cole on activist Civil Servants briefing against Ministers…

“There is a tension between the Civil Servants [and Ministers] being played up by left-wing agitators like Dave Penman from the FDA, who’s clearly now an activist. He’s not your sort of standard union leader representing the poor, downtrodden pinstriped Sir Humphreys. He is a player in this, and so Ministers need to be careful. They need to know that actually, give them an inch and they will be on the front page of the Guardian…”