civil service

Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Simon McDonald contradicted the government, and then later backtracked.
Home secretary makes call for unity after accusations from the most senior official at the Home Office.
HuffPost UK revealed on Thursday that tensions had risen between Sir Philip Rutnam and Priti Patel after he refused to sack a colleague on Christmas Eve.
Downing Street dismisses "baseless" suggestion security services are not sharing intelligence with the home secretary.
The civil service is far from perfect, but neither is it the dysfunctional “blob” that some have suggested, writes Dave Penman.
Surprise pledge in manifesto will benefit NHS staff, teachers, armed forces and others.
Labour writes to top civil servant to say PM's publicly-funded base should be off limits for Tory electioneering.
Without wider reform, the increase in wages will effectively be like allowing workers to buy new skates but leaving them on thin ice, CLASS director Faiza Shaheen writes.
Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings have been warned against the "politicisation of the civil service".
If the country isn’t ready for a hard Brexit, the public deserve to know before they’re launched into the abyss, Frances O'Grady and Sir Bob Kerslake write.