How Matt Hancock’s obsession with the film Contagion – which sees disease-gripped nations battling for limited vaccine supplies – helped inspire him to prioritise Britain’s jab rollout Former DHSC adviser said Matt Hancock would ‘keep referring to end of the film’ Movie depicted vaccines being handed out using a lottery based on birth dates The … Read more
How Matt Hancock’s obsession with the film Contagion – which sees disease-gripped nations battling for limited vaccine supplies – helped inspire him to prioritise Britain’s jab rollout Former DHSC adviser said Matt Hancock would ‘keep referring to end of the film’ Movie depicted vaccines being handed out using a lottery based on birth dates The … Read more
Portrait that hung for years in servants’ quarters of Welsh mansion then sold for ‘a few shillings’ as a job lot with other paintings is identified as a Botticelli masterpiece worth £67MILLION Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel went under the hammer at Sotheby’s auction in New York and sold to Russian clients … Read more
Many elderly women lost out on state pension because junior civil servants failed to manually update their individual records during past decades, it has emerged. Well over a 100 government staff are now working to assess and manually correct individual records and more are being assigned to sort out the ‘significant legacy issue’, MPs have … Read more
The Scottish government spent more than £50,000 on preparing civil servants to give evidence about the investigation into former First Minister Alex Salmond, it has emerged. Top officials are reported to have spent hours preparing for the sessions, where they then suffered a ‘collective memory loss’ on key details. This has led to accusations of ‘coaching’ … Read more
The Scottish government spent more than £50,000 on preparing civil servants to give evidence about the investigation into former First Minister Alex Salmond, it has emerged. Top officials are reported to have spent hours preparing for the sessions, where they then suffered a ‘collective memory loss’ on key details. This has led to accusations of ‘coaching’ … Read more
Almost ALL civil servants want to be allowed to continue working from home after the lockdown ends with seven in 10 saying they are doing LONGER hours by not coming in to the office 97% of those polled by FDA union wanted to do their job from home sometimes Almost a third said they wanted … Read more
Civil servants SUE Boris Johnson for NOT sacking Home Secretary Priti Patel and overruling an independent report that said her shouting and swearing at mandarins amounted to bullying Lawyers for civil service mandarins said PM’s failure to sack gave ‘carte blanche’ Independent report found Ms Patel’s behaviour to civil servants was bullying Sir Alex Allan … Read more
Civil servants SUE Boris Johnson for NOT sacking Home Secretary Priti Patel and overruling an independent report that said her shouting and swearing at mandarins amounted to bullying Lawyers for civil service mandarins said PM’s failure to sack gave ‘carte blanche’ Independent report found Ms Patel’s behaviour to civil servants was bullying Sir Alex Allan … Read more
A hipster Filipino restaurant which provided almost £50,000 of taxpayer-funded food to Matt Hancock’s civil servants has been driven out of business by the government’s Covid lockdown. Despite fulfilling ten orders worth thousands each from the Department of Health in the early weeks of the pandemic, Bong Bongs Manila Kanteen in Hackney, east London, was crippled … Read more