Watch out, Whitehall. Dominic Cummings has some tough love in store for us | The civil servant
After Boris Johnson’s win, civil servants know the axe is hovering over departments including the DExEU and DfID
Those who work for the government clearly are no better at predicting the future than any other group of ringside spectators at the UK’s political circus. Last Friday’s electoral earthquake was as remarkable to us as it was to you.
But we’re professionals: sure, many on the civil service payroll will have voted for or against a Conservative majority. Some of us rather naughtily may even have taken part in election campaign activity. But back at our Whitehall offices we prepared for this blue tsunami no less than we prepared for the possibilities of Labour or coalition governments.