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Note for Rees-Mogg: office attendance is no guarantee of efficiency

Letters: Ian Arnott recalls how ‘desk sharing’ worked out in the civil service, while Jane Roffey suspects that the MP does not trust staff to be productive when working from home. Plus letters from Pete Dorey, Rob Hull, Ian Mcnicholas and Don Brown

The Guardian - UK

Cabinet Office condemned by MPs for FoI ‘clearing house’ secrecy

The Independent UK

‘Poisoned chalice’: senior Tories sought for place on committee judging PM

Boris Johnson faces investigation by privileges committee into whether he lied to Commons over Partygate

The Guardian - UK

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Unions lash out at Johnson over attack on ‘work-from-home manana culture’

Relations between the PM and civil servants have been strained by a drive to get more staff back behind their desks.

The Independent UK

UK health agency to cut 800 jobs and halt routine Covid testing

Exclusive: ‘Alarming’ cuts by UK Health Security Agency could cost lives, public health experts warn

The Guardian - UK

Civil service chief ‘warns Boris Johnson against forcing government workers back to office’

Prime minister backs Jacob Rees-Mogg despite criticism of minister’s ‘Dickensian’ tactics to repopulate Whitehall

The Independent UK

Civil service head warns PM against forcing Whitehall workers back to office

Exclusive: Simon Case and at least four permanent secretaries raise alarm over Johnson government’s tactics

The Guardian - UK

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UK government defends bonuses paid to staff of collapsed firm Bulb

Energy company effectively nationalised as part of bailout that could cost taxpayers £2.2bn

The Guardian - UK

Is the DVLA under threat?: What Jacob Rees-Mogg said about the Swansea agency and closing and merging quangos

'I am still constantly writing to DVLA on behalf of my constituents to get them driving licences and we know that the DVLA was simply not working properly with people working from home'

Wales Online

Boris Johnson backs Mogg's 'Dickensian' empty desk notes and won't rule out SELLING offices

Boris Johnson's spokesman backed the 'efficiency' minister's crackdown on WFH civil servants despite a Tory row - and didn't rule out offloading Whitehall offices that don’t fill up

Daily Mirror

Johnson backs Rees-Mogg over ‘Dickensian’ Whitehall return-to-office push

Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries criticised Jacob Rees-Mogg’s drive to get civil servants back to their desks but No 10 backed him.

The Independent UK

Partygate scandal overshadows Boris Johnson’s bid to shore up Red Wall support

Boris Johnson was hitting the local election campaign trail in the “Red Wall” on Monday as the Tories were seeking to make “pockets of progress” amid the controversy over partygate.

Evening Standard

PM backs Rees-Mogg’s ‘Dickensian’ approach to working from home, says No 10

Cabinet split emerges after minister Nadine Dorries criticises notes being left on empty civil servant desks

The Guardian - UK

Overwhelming majority of UK-based French expats back Macron

Almost 93 per cent of French expats in the UK voted for Emmanuel Macron, voting data revealed on Monday, as they overwhelmingly rejected far right candidate Marine Le Pen in Sunday’s presidential election run-off.

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The Independent UK

Dorries hits out at Rees-Mogg’s ‘Dickensian’ war on officials working from home

Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has reportedly questioned Jacob Rees-Mogg’s drive to get Whitehall staff back behind their desks.

The Independent UK

Rees-Mogg says empty Whitehall offices are ‘cost to taxpayer’

The minister for government efficiency has reportedly been leaving notes in ‘deserted’ workspaces.

Wales Online

Rees-Mogg sparks angry division after leaving notes on absent civil servants' desks

'Sorry you were out when I visited. I look forward to seeing you in the office very soon' note condemned as 'nasty and patronising'

Daily Mirror

Keir Starmer slams Met police for staying quiet on Partygate fines before election

The Met say they will continue issuing fixed penalty notices for up to 12 No10 parties but not give updates for at least 13 days when voting in local elections is over

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Daily Mirror

Jacob Rees-Mogg defends leaving 'passive-aggressive' notes for civil servants

The Tory minister for “government efficiency” and “Brexit opportunities” was visited Whitehall offices yesterday, and left leaflets for any civil servant who wasn’t physically sitting at their desk

The Independent UK

Rees-Mogg criticised for leaving ‘crass’ messages in empty Whitehall offices

The minister has left notes for civil servants working from home telling them he is ‘looking forward’ to seeing them back in the office.

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson to face official Partygate 'lying' probe - what happens next

The Commons Privileges Committee will investigate the four times the Prime Minister is said to have lied by insisting all Covid rules were followed in No10 when asked about lockdown parties.

Wales Online

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will face Commons investigation into whether he misled Parliament

MPs have voted to refer the Prime Minister to the Privileges Committee

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson will be investigated for 'lying to Parliament' as MPs pass vote

The Prime Minister will officially be investigated by the Commons Privileges Committee over allegations he misled Parliament at least four times over Partygate

The Guardian - UK

Sir Gordon Downey obituary

Senior civil servant and parliamentary commissioner for standards who investigated the ‘cash for questions’ affair

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson promises to give nuclear test veterans 'recognition they deserve'

Boris Johnson looks set to overrule a secretive Whitehall committee and award a medal to the survivors of Britain’s Cold War testing programme. No Prime Minister has ever made such a pledge

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