The Latest Breaking News from Whitehall

Minister says programme will help ensure Whitehall has ‘broadest range of talent and truly reflects the country’

Civil service internships will be given out based on applicants’ parents’ jobs when they were 14

The Government is being urged to stop awarding contracts to the Japanese tech giant.

The legislation includes measures to boost the power of mayors and deliver a ‘radical reset of local government’.

Company to provide free technology and ‘upskill’ civil servants but concerns raised over UK data being held on US servers

Prevention beats cure in our view. Targeting issues like housing, personal debt and mental health will get people into work and cut the benefits bill, says Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham

Ministers have been urged to produce a 10-year outlook revealing their intentions for equipment procurement.

Since 1963, when he photographed a fellow student being arrested, David Hoffman has turned his camera on rebels and rioters. His archive tells an alternative story of Britain, from Greenham Common to students marching on Whitehall

INSIDE WESTMINSTER: Keir Starmer complains that the government machine is slow to crank into life when he demands action. To prevent his ‘mission-driven’ domestic agenda from being doomed to failure, the prime minister should first get rid of the Cabinet Office, says Andrew Grice