Liz Truss under pressure to reveal details of energy crisis plan Emergency budget of winter tax cuts expected next week once period of national mourning for Queen is over The Guardian - UK · Sep 12, 2022
Simon Case keeps job as UK’s top civil servant after PM changes mind Controversial cabinet secretary was in charge during Partygate scandal and had been expected to be replaced The Guardian - UK · Sep 12, 2022
Fears of parliamentary ‘paralysis’ as Queen’s funeral leaves parties in limbo Mourning has halted debate just when the opposition wanted to put pressure on new PM – but Labour conference will go ahead The Guardian - UK · Sep 11, 2022
Tom Scholar, permanent secretary to the Treasury, sacked by Liz Truss Government likely to seek replacement amenable to its plans of economic growth through tax cuts The Guardian - UK · Sep 8, 2022
Kwasi Kwarteng: free marketeer and Truss’s ideological soulmate becomes chancellor Former business secretary will be helped by close relationship with PM but takes role during historic economic storm The Guardian - UK · Sep 6, 2022
More than 20,000 back stinging call for new PM to resolve WASPI dispute - letter in full Members of the Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) campaign have called on Ms Truss and Ms Sunak to rethink and help an estimated 3.6 million women born in the 1950s impacted by the shake-up Daily Mirror · Sep 4, 2022
Whitehall officials 'used government Boris plane for £50k sightseeing trip' The 700-mile round trip took place on Wednesday afternoon, with 12 officials from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said to have got on the Airbus A321 plane Daily Mirror · Sep 2, 2022
Simon McGee to be No 10 press chief if Liz Truss becomes PM, sources say Exclusive: former Foreign Office press secretary to split role with Adam Jones if Truss wins Tory leadership race The Guardian - UK · Sep 1, 2022
East Midlands could receive new powers in first of its kind devolution deal The region could see new wide-reaching powers as part of a devolution deal if the Government’s Levelling Up Bill passes. The Independent UK · Aug 29, 2022
Jacob Rees-Mogg reveals ‘new strategy’ to sell off £1.5bn of London offices It is not clear to what extent the planned sale is part of the Government’s pre-existing plan to move 22,000 civil servants out of the capital. The Independent UK · Aug 28, 2022
'Like shouting into the abyss': Andy Burnham describes dealing with Boris Johnson The Greater Manchester Mayor has given a withering assessment of the Prime Minister as he prepares to step down Manchester Evening News · Aug 25, 2022
Philip Hammond’s consultancy firm made almost £1m in profit Filings cover period ex-chancellor worked for controversial clients including Saudi government The Guardian - UK · Aug 25, 2022
Mayor says government should let Liverpool solve its own problems Joanne Anderson said government officers' presence was impacting the workforce Liverpool Echo · Aug 22, 2022
Commissioners deliver damning verdict on progress at Liverpool Council Finances, contracts and management have come under fire Liverpool Echo · Aug 19, 2022
Liverpool Echo · Aug 18, 2022 Government taking over all finance and governance powers at Liverpool Council Exclusive: Levelling Up Secretary confirms effective government takeover of troubled city council - and launches strategic panel to guide city forward chaired by Steve Rotheram
The Guardian - UK · Aug 16, 2022 Cyclists could be made to have registration plates and insurance – report Whitehall review is also said to suggest cycling speed limits, along with licence penalty points and fines
Chronicle Live · Aug 16, 2022 The Northern Agenda: The estate where children are struggling to breathe A two-year-old boy died in Rochdale after being exposed to damp and mould
The Independent UK · Aug 16, 2022 Government plan to cut civil servants’ redundancy pay ‘add insult to injury’, says union Ministers want ‘job cuts on the cheap’, says PCS union – as Rishi Sunak attacks ‘bloated’ state
Evening Standard · Aug 15, 2022 Rishi Sunak pledges to axe civil service jobs in shake up of ‘bloated’ post covid state Tory leadership challenger warns senior civil servants they will be required to work outside London as he tries to re-ignite his campaign
The Independent UK · Aug 15, 2022 Sunak commits to Civil Service cuts as part of plan for Whitehall ‘shake-up’ The former chancellor said the ‘bloated post-Covid state is in need of a shake-up’.
The Guardian - UK · Aug 15, 2022 Ministers planning to cut civil servant redundancy pay at same time as 91,000 jobs Exclusive: Unions warn proposal to reduce payouts by a quarter as headcount shrinks could lead to industrial action
The Guardian - UK · Aug 15, 2022 UK treatment of Afghan refugees ‘continues to be source of shame’ MoD sources accuse other parts of Whitehall of failing to do enough to help Afghans who worked with British forces
Daily Mirror · Aug 13, 2022 Anger as 66% of Tory Levelling Up staff are based in LONDON - with just 3% in North East Only 2.4% – 82 people – work for the department in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland combined despite the government's department's mission to spread “opportunity and prosperity around the UK”
Evening Standard · Aug 11, 2022 The threat of nationalisation looms if a deal can’t be done — inside the bitter battle for TfL Government bailouts have come with untenable strings, claim TfL bosses, but without them the service faces nationalisation. Would London Mayor Sadiq Khan really be willing to risk it? Ross Lydall reports
The Guardian - UK · Aug 9, 2022 Public services need another £44bn by 2025 to cope with inflation, says IFS Severe cuts to services feared as rising costs absorb a big chunk of increased departmental spending