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Cabinet Office’s Simon Case told cabinet secretary Mark Sedwill: ‘I’ve never seen people less well-equipped to run a country’

The Covid inquiry is hearing about people in Downing Street during the pandemic who helped the government make decisions

Drug-fuelled benders, karaoke sets and whistleblowers: we separate fact from fiction

After 30 years of helping homeless people and troubled families, the can-do peer says she’s had her fill of this Tory administration

MPs said some of his denials and explanations for lockdown bashes were 'so disingenuous' that they were clearly deliberate attempts to mislead Parliament and the Committee in its inquiries

It comes amid mounting alarm over the threat from AI technology after Rishi Sunak's top tech adviser warned world leaders had just two years to get a grip on the rapidly developing field

Ex head of civil service says UK needs to invest in capabilities

Many people realise that Boris Johnson is a dishonest chancer who lacks any real convictions, said David Gauke in The New Statesman. Less obvious – at least to those outside Whitehall – is “quite how extraordinarily inept he was at performing some of the basic functions of being prime minister”.…

Instant removal of Treasury’s permanent secretary potentially worsened mini-budget crisis, parliamentary committee hears