A hard rain in Westminster: Is this the end of the Civil Service as we know it?

A hard rain in Westminster: Is this the end of the Civil Service as we know it?

Dominic Cummings is promising vast change - so why have so many senior civil servants quit?

Words: Zoe Dickens

Sir Jonathan Jones. Sir Mark Sedwill. Simon McDonald. Philip Rutnam. Sir Richard Heaton. Jonathan Slater. What do all these people have in common? Until recently they were all senior members of the Civil Service – and in the last six months they’ve all resigned or, as many see it, been forced out.

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