I was proud to work for some years, and to the best of my ability, as a civil servant in the offices of both Conservative and Labour ministers – it was my duty to the electorate and to the government of the day. Those ministers did not shy away from the odd soundbite, for sure: but they were serious people with an appetite for ideas and the best interests of the nation at heart.
Liz Truss’s latest foray into her little world of smear and unsubstantiated labelling – about alleged antisemitism and “woke” culture in the civil service – is a matter for deep concern (Liz Truss accused of offensive remarks about Jewish people and civil service, 12 August). And not just because of the fatuous nature of the straw man she is setting up to knock down.
