The political conformity of this new cabinet is spreading fear in Whitehall – and may derail the government’s ambitions
In 2016, the then civil service chief Sir Jeremy Heywood gave evidence to the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war. He challenged a committee of MPs with a question: “Do you have a culture in which senior officials, ministers and external experts feel it is possible to offer an alternative view to the prevailing wisdom so to avoid groupthink?” Four years later, the answer to that seems to be: no, we don’t.
Heywood died in 2018 aged 56, saluted by politicians of every stripe as the pre-eminent public servant of his generation. I have no doubt that if he’d been in the room last week with Boris Johnson’s fledgling cabinet, he too would have joined the chorus of dismay gurgling through Whitehall.
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from MetNews https://metnews.pw/whitehalls-take-on-johnsons-reshuffle-this-prime-minister-is-insecure-the-civil-servant/
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