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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Sophie Wingate

Tories: Starmer throwing top civil servant ‘under a bus’ with expected dismissal

Cabinet secretary Sir Chris Wormald is believed to be on his way out (Yui Mok/PA) - (PA Archive)

Sir Keir Starmer is throwing his Cabinet Secretary “under a bus” with his expected dismissal, Kemi Badenoch has said, amid a row over who could take up the job.

Sir Chris Wormald is believed to be on his way out as head of the civil service as the Prime Minister seeks to reset his Downing Street operation after controversies surrounding the appointments of Lord Peter Mandelson and Lord Matthew Doyle despite their association with sex offenders.

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