Legal

Whitehall insider-turned-academic Richard Mottram says EU referendum and its aftermath underscores the uphill struggle of speaking truth to power

Civil service’s largest trade union seeks judicial review of terms and conditions overhaul

 But devolved parliaments in Holyrood, Cardiff and Stormont will not get binding votes on Article 50

Rob Behrens tells MPs that office relocation and merged operations with local government counterpart can fund investment in complaints handlers

With a snap election looming after the Northern Ireland executive was brought down by a scandal over renewable heat incentives,  Alan Bermingham explores the governance and public finance implications of the Stormont crisis 

"No deal for Britain is better than a bad deal for Britain," says prime minister in major Chatham House address

Sir Nicholas Macpherson says his Treasury predecessor was "instrumental in pulling the country back from the brink in 1976"

Former cabinet secretary "all sorts of details will still remain to be sorted out" after two-year deadline elapses

Proceedings set to last for four days, with a ruling due in the new year

"Anyone found to have leaked sensitive information will be dismissed even where there is no compromise of national security," Heywood tells departmental chiefs

Former top officials warn against centralisation of power with the finance ministry on eve of chancellor Philip Hammond's first Autumn Statement

 Former head of the civil service Lord Kerslake urges government to "pause, review, take stock of what it has in front of it and then revisit the question of capacity"