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Dominic Cummings is recruiting data scientists, policy experts, and other “assorted weirdos” to shake up the Remainer-dominated Civil Service, saying “Oxbridge Humanities graduates” need not apply.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reportedly planning to grant peerages to Tory Brexiteers in order to rebalance the remainer-dominated House of Lords, according to a report.

Iraq War architect and controversial former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has taken aim at Dominic Cummings, a one-time senior figure in the pro-Brexit campaign who now advises PM Boris Johnson in Downing Street, calling him a “quasi-anarchist”. 

Nigel Farage has criticised the government’s worst-case-scenario projections of the immediate aftermath of a no deal Brexit as “utter tosh” and “Project Fear mark II”. 

A group of over 350 Hong Kong civil servants wrote a petition to the government on Thursday that said they are “absolutely disgusted” by the excessive use of police force against demonstrators and warning they might call a strike if the abuse continues.

Some encouraging news: Boris Johnson has appointed Dominic Cummings as one of his senior advisors.

A group of so-called ghost civil servants in France, some of whom have not done a days work since 1989, drew combined salaries of one million euros a year. 

Steve Baker MP has called for Theresa May to sack her senior EU advisers for conspiring to tie the UK indefinitely to a customs union with the bloc, singling out top civil servant Olly Robbins.

LONDON (AP) – Jeremy Heywood, a powerful government adviser who ran Britain’s civil service until illness forced him to step down, has died of cancer, the government said Sunday. He was 56.

If you’ve ever wondered why British politics is in such a mess look no further than a leaked report into Civil Service skullduggery during the Windrush scandal.

Top deep state Civil Servants who are happy to take orders from the European Union are working to sabotage Brexit and are leading both the Prime Minister and the country to a “humiliating sellout”, Brexit leader Nigel Farage said Wednesday. 

Oliver ‘Olly’ Robbins, the top bureaucrat who has become Theresa May’s key adviser on Brexit, may be snapped up by an investment banking corporation after the EU negotiations are complete. 

British civil servants are “war-gaming” another EU referendum as anti-Brexit campaigners begin “the most co-ordinated lobbying effort ever”.

Brexiteers have mocked sensational Civil Service leaks claiming Brexit could lead to an almost immediate collapse in essential supplies of food, fuel, and medicine, dubbed the “Armageddon” scenario. 

Bureaucrats are telling the government that Britain cannot leave the EU’s Customs Union before 2023 – seven years after the public voted for Brexit.

A government paper claiming that Britain will suffer outside the EU was deliberately leaked in a bid to sabotage Brexit, according to a senior minister.

WASHINGTON, DC – President Donald Trump touted his commitment to several key constitutional issues in his State of the Union Address on Tuesday, including judicial appointments, religious liberty, the Second Amendment, and whether terrorists are entitled to constitutional protections.

Former chancellor and senior Brexit campaigner Lord Lawson has warned that civil servants will “do their best to frustrate” Britain’s exit from the European Union (EU).

Civil servants have been told not to use gendered pronouns like “he” and “she” in the latest government directives, so as to avoid causing offence to people who identify as transgender, it has been revealed.

A senior parliamentary committee believes that “inappropriate” interventions in the Brexit referendum by government officials have undermined public trust in Civil Service impartiality.

LONDON (AP) — A senior British diplomat who warned that negotiating a European Union exit could take 10 years has quit the civil service, days after stepping down as the U.K.’s envoy to the bloc, the government said Saturday.

The Prime Minister, Theresa May, has asked every one of her Cabinet ministers to come up with a plan to make the most of Britain’s exit from the European Union. The request comes amidst concern that senior civil servants are

An exit from the European Union (EU) could spark a revolution in British lawmaking, opening the floodgates on enough radical new policies to fill the Queen’s speeches for more than a decade, senior Whitehall officials have said. In preparation for

Eurosceptic Members of Parliament believe the British government will twist rules designed to stop public resources being used to unfairly influence the country’s European Union referendum in order to block the civil service from releasing migration data ahead of the vote. The

The Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has defended plans to prevent cabinet ministers who back Britain leaving the European Union (EU) from accessing help from the taxpayer-funded civil service. His comments echo the Prime Minister’s own on the matter, but pro-Brexit

The majority of Britain’s civil servants back charging the public for Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, with some even favouring restrictions on the press, raising fears that transparency legislation could be under threat. The research by Civil Service World/Dods Research

The government watchdog which inspects police forces’ ability to deal with terrorism has admitted that it employed a notorious supporter of Islamic extremism for nearly two years, despite doing background checks on him before they hired him. By day, the

A graphic released by the Institute for Government shows 14 departments have decreased in staff size since the spending review of 2010, only three have increased. The three that were so central to David Cameron’s worldview that they merited protection, and indeed