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Sue Gray can start work as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff in September, says watchdog

Ex-civil servant and Partygate investigator Sue Gray can start as Sir Keir Starmer's chief of staff in September after serving a six-month wait, Whitehall's appointments watchdog has ruled.

Evening Standard

Partygate investigator Sue Gray cleared to become Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff

But the government is set to accuse Sue Gray of breaking civil service rules

The Independent UK

Partygate sleuth Sue Gray can join Starmer’s office after six-month wait

The ruling by the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments means she will start working with the Labour leader in September.

The Independent UK

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Zac Goldsmith resigns accusing Sunak of being ‘uninterested’ in environment

Outgoing minister attacks PM but No 10 claims he quit after being asked to apologise over privileges committee criticism

The Guardian - UK

Zac Goldmith's resignation letter IN FULL as he rips into 'uninterested' Rishi Sunak

The Tory peer said the Prime Minister's 'apathy' towards environmental and animal welfare issues meant his role as a government minister has become 'untenable' in a blistering letter

Daily Mirror

Watchdog rejects Johnson’s suggestion Sue Gray’s Labour job meant she was not impartial investigating Partygate – as it happened

Advisory committee on business appointments says it has seen ‘no evidence’ that Gray’s decision-making was affected despite ex-PM’s claim

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Plot thickens on Wagner mercenaries mutiny and the missing general

Analysis: Washington and Whitehall knew two days ahead of the march into Rostov as war enters yet another critical phase

Evening Standard

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Troubled Thames Water brings in veteran City ‘fixer’ as chair

Sir Adrian Montague is regarded as having a rare insight into the workings of Whitehall

Evening Standard

UK business minister says Thames Water must survive; Bank of England governor understands criticism over rate hike – as it happened

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as government begins drawing up contingency plans for the collapse of Thames Water

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak accused of concealment culture after record number of FoI blocks

Lowest ever percentage of freedom of information requests were fully granted in first three months of current government

The Guardian - UK

South West vineyards perform well in The WineGB Awards 2023

Cornwall, Devon and Hampshire, gained 19 medals each, closely followed by Wiltshire (14 medals) Dorset (13 medals)

Birmingham Post

MPs demand to ‘cut through Whitehall bureaucracy’ and get jailed British-Russian dissident home

Vladimir Kara-Murza, who holds a British passport, has been jailed for 25 years by a Moscow court for opposing the invasion of Ukraine

The Independent UK

Labour 'only have 10 MPs capable of being ministers', top party insider says

LABOUR have been mocked after a member of Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet said that the party only has around 10 MPs capable of being government…

The National (Scotland)

New guidance needed to stop ministers putting friends on Whitehall boards

MPs call for shakeup to stop ‘super-spads’ being made non-executive directors in government departments

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UK government debt rises above 100% of GDP for first time since 1961

In blow to Rishi Sunak’s plans to cut taxes before general election, net debt reached £2.6tn at of end of May

The Independent UK

Ex-civil service staff chief says No 10 leaders ‘set tone’ for lockdown parties

Rupert McNeil described conduct in Downing Street during the pandemic as ‘extremely disappointing’ and discussed perceptions of the civil service.

The Guardian - UK

Home Office diversity training on rise despite Braverman scepticism

Exclusive: Numbers taking courses have risen under Suella Braverman, who previously said they were a waste

The Guardian - UK

‘It could be taken down by an enthusiastic child’: Whitehall wide open to cyber-attack, warn campaigners

TaxPayers’ Alliance says HMRC, health department and atomic energy authority all use old servers that make them vulnerable

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Honours row grows after claim Charlotte Owen ‘worked as maternity cover’

The youngest life peer in UK history at the age of 29, the former assistant to Boris Johnson was covering maternity leave in his office

The Independent UK

Sue Gray ‘breached Whitehall impartiality rules’ over Labour chief of staff job talks

A Cabinet Office inquiry alleged the Partygate investigater could have been ‘suspended or sacked had she not quit’

Evening Standard

Boris Johnson joins Daily Mail as columnist but finds himself in more hot water

Former prime minister under fresh scrutiny after Whitehall’s anti-corruption watchdog said he had not applied for clearance

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson joins Daily Mail as columnist but ‘did not inform watchdog’

The former prime minister could find himself under scrutiny after Whitehall’s anti-corruption watchdog said he had not applied for clearance.

The Guardian - UK

UK public buildings feared to be at risk of collapse as concrete crumbles

Ministers launch inquiry into use of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC)

The Guardian - UK

Concern at plan for taxpayer-funded campaign to promote Sunak priorities

Exclusive: plan to bolt PM’s five pledges on to a range of campaigns seen as too political within Whitehall, source says

The Guardian - UK

‘Pantomime has to end’: how Tories turned on Boris Johnson – and how it could break them

After a statement laced with anger and Trump-like lack of contrition, the ex-PM’s demise could tear his party apart

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