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The Minister for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency, has called for the 'rapid return' of civil servants to their offices in Whitehall now that Covid-19restrictions have ended

You never want to be the one who has to find a meeting room in Whitehall. There are never any going spare and, at least in my experience, the Cabinet Office (1916-2022) block books them all months in advance so you end up discussing the Northern Ireland Executive’s draft budget…

Civil service head will carry the can, amid row over claims that No 10 tried to interfere with Sue Gray’s findings

BORIS Johnson is under pressure to explain a meeting with Sue Gray over her highly-anticipated partygate report.

The exact nature of the talks between Boris Johnson and senior civil servant Sue Gray remain unclear.

Angela Rayner, Labour's deputy leader, called on the Prime Minister to explain

The pair are understood to have held a meeting to discuss the report's progress

Labour says public confidence in the process has already been ‘depleted’, and people ‘deserve to know the truth’.

The leader claimed that there had been a surge in foreign attacks against Russia since the beginning of his "special operation" in Ukraine