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Once an anonymous Whitehall lawyer, Shami Chakrabarti is now the very public face of Britain’s civil liberties movement – and a woman who inspires admiration and outrage in equal measure. Jess Bowie meets her

London and the South East can attract greater investment by working as one to provide global investors with attractive opportunities, says AECOM

Top Treasury official calls for closer working between Whitehall and local government

Inquiry set up in 2009 to investigate build-up to Iraq war will take “some further months”, Sir John Chilcot says

Management and removal of foreign national offenders comes under fire from Margaret Hodge’s committee

Alison Saunders defends plans after lawyers warn against new guidelines 

Public trust in civil servants is at an all-time high, says new survey

The Theory of Everything is a moving and sensitive love story with a difference, says Sarah Aston

Major infrastructure projects must be in line with long-term strategy 

DCLG’s Troubled Families Unit won the Policy Award

Scotland protected from full shock of drop in oil prices by economic and financial union of UK 

MI5 makes charity’s list of top employers for lesbian, gay and bisexual people

Government must support UK businesses to develop the capability to lead on upcoming UK infrastructure projects, says AECOM

Nicholas Macpherson says economic and financial functions should both remain in the Treasury

Nicholas Macpherson says Smith Commission recommendations may enhance accountability in Scotland and “make our job easier”

Move comes after PAC blasts Nuclear Management Partners for handling of operations at Sellafield

CSW asked Lib Dem MP and former transport and home office minister Norman Baker to appraise the UK civil service 

The PM has met security chiefs after saying last night that Britain must “modernise” interception rules 

The Cabinet Office is setting up a new digital team to drive digital-first agenda in Whitehall

Sir David Bell calls for more trust in teachers and schools – and for an independent body to set education strategy

While Defra prepares for rising global temperatures, Environment Secretary Liz Truss is more immediately focused on trying to warm more tech graduates to the food and farming industries – and engineer a thaw in relations between the Tories and the north

Increasing security services resources is a priority, says the chancellor 

PAC chair Margaret Hodge takes aim at Cabinet Office following today’s NAO report on government payment pledge

The head of the Economic and Domestic Secretariat in the Cabinet Office will replace Sir Bob Kerslake at DCLG