Starmer sends letter of praise to civil servants after ‘managed decline’ remarks

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend Prime Minister’s Questions at the Houses of Parliament. Picture date: Wednesday December 4, 2024. - (PA Wire)

The Prime Minister has written to civil servants praising their work after a backlash to remarks that too many of them are “comfortable in the tepid bath of managed decline”.

But the head of the FDA, the union that represents senior civil servants, said that Sir Keir Starmer needs to go further and “should not underestimate the damage his remarks last week made”.