Rayner targets qualification “snobbery” with new civil service policy
Under new plans put forward by Labour today, applicants for jobs in the civil service would no longer…
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Mark Serwotka: Beware the establishment fightback against a Corbyn government
This week Jeremy Corbyn said Philip Hammond, the chancellor, was right to call the Labour party an “existential…
Jon Trickett: Even when there are more women, the posh boys at the top still make the system work in their favour
Although the Conservatives pledged to “end the pay gap in a generation”, they have totally failed to equalise…
Andrew Gwynne: Ministers’ “alternative facts” will not stop us holding the government to account over Brexit
The government has become “overloaded” ahead of Brexit due to civil service cuts and a deficit of experience…
PMQs verdict: combative Corbyn’s points of detail edge out awkward, scripted May
It began with an issue few will have heard of but Jeremy Corbyn’s tactics today were more familiar:…
Weekly survey: Corbyn, the EU campaign and the risks of Brexit
Nearly half of Labour voters don’t realise their party’s stance is to campaign for Britain to stay in…
Labour accuse Maude of “politically inspired civil service bashing”
Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude has been accused of causing a crisis in Whitehall morale through “routine, politically…
Government should be joined up and grown up
Civil servants: they’re really rubbish, aren’t they? Always getting in the way, blocking things, dragging their feet, ignoring…
Experience is a double edged sword
In just over a year Labour could be back in power. That we are able to say this…
It’s not just what we do it, but how it’s done – we need radical reform of Whitehall
Reform of the civil service may seem a long way down the list of priorities for the next…
