Leadership

Latest staff moves come as government ramps up preparation for no deal

Organisation’s Brexit head takes top job

New appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via our colleagues at Dods People

Peer had claimed that all pictures of the Queen had been removed from the NIO’s Stormont offices

Department seeks team to come in conduct review of technical and cultural obstacles

General Sir Chris Deverell has just retired from one of Britain’s most senior military positions. He tells Richard Johnstone about the unique role of civil servants in the Ministry of Defence and how winter sports kept him away from Civvy Street

Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer also raises prospect of a Brexit public inquiry under a Labour government

Plans will include "one of the biggest peacetime public information campaigns this country has seen"

Words civil servants told not to use include “hopefully”, “very”, “due to” and “equal”

New appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via our colleagues at Dods People

Spending Review delay would be “bad news for those planning and managing big public services”, but departments must prepare, IfG says

Series of ministerial appointments made yesterday, while rumoured spad appointments on the way

Former DfE spad and Vote Leave chief is a longstanding critic of Whitehall. CSW reviews what he says he would change if he had power

Former DfE spad and Vote Leave chief Dominic Cummings set for key role as first cabinet appointments exepcted today

Some surprising figures have invited management consultants into Whitehall over the past six decades, although their private-sector expertise has not always been directed where it was needed most

Cabinet Office reduces recommended pay increase from 2.2% to 2% so that paybill increase is in line with delegated pay guidance for departments

Three years and three secretaries of state into his time as Ministry of Defence permanent secretary, Sir Stephen Lovegrove discusses diversity, procurement lessons, and how long his staff can expect to put up with his jokes

New appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via our colleagues at Dods People

Cabinet secretary lauds Thompson’s achievements at the head of the tax authority as move to Audit, Reporting and Governance Authority is announced

The only certainty in the Conservative leadership race is that some civil servants will get a new boss, says the Institute for Government’s Tim Durrant

Departments to provide details of requirements by the end of this month, says civil service chief exec

Liz Truss says government stands by 2015 reforms to public service pensions after transitional protections ruled discriminatory

Emily Miles to head up watchdog from September after acting as environment ministry’s director general for EU Exit delivery 

Bernard Jenkin highlights the way Margaret Thatcher worked with the civil service to implement major policy changes as example for incoming PM