And I'm proud of it not just as the head of the service, but as a citizen," he said.He said the future public mjust ask “whether the right decisions were taken at the right time... Are there things we could have done better? Any team manager knows that you don’t always get the best out of your players by telling them they are all useless.At some point, Johnson and Cummings will need to take the civil service with them, if they are going to get the best out of it. But he said the PM had “paid very warm tribute to individuals, including to me... [and] spoken of his appreciation for the amazing job the civil and the wider public service has done on Covid, and so on.” “I'm really proud of it. But he said when he took over, he was already doing the job he thought he was a perfect fit for – national security adviser.When then-PM Theresa May asked him to step up, he said: “I was unable to persuade her to not ask me to do it.”Did he try?

Clearly, he had not modernised it enough.

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A very different animal to Sedwill’s securocrat.There will also be fears that the Whitehall reforms are designed to concentrate power in No 10. Start your Independent Premium subscription today.Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? SIR MARK Sedwill has become the third civil service chief to be forced out in a year as the Prime Minister plans a major Whitehall shake up. Take a step back and although I express things in less vivid language than a politician or a special adviser, for the vast majority of civil servants, these shifts to different ways of working would have a profound effect on their jobs [...]“So I think people shouldn't get too consumed with language, they should actually look at the substance and ask themselves, what are the real changes that are going change their jobs, their relationship with the citizen?”“I think we should challenge the legitimacy of people who can't answer back being briefed against... it is unreasonable that people who, by convention, don't answer back and don't respond to every criticism, are subject to this kind of – usually anonymous – attack and snipe,” the cab sec said.He said he will continue to remind politicians that such behaviour is “counterproductive”.

28/06/2020. They want ministers to change too, as Michael Gove, the Cabinet Office minister, made clear in a 7,500-word lecture at Ditchley Park on Saturday. It endangers the whole concept of having a neutral civil service to deliver the government’s agenda. He said in his resignation letter that he and Johnson had agreed the PM would need a separate national security adviser and cabinet secretary for the next phase of his administration.There is already speculation that Johnson might look outside Whitehall for Sedwill’s successor, possibly bringing in someone with a track record in the private sector as a signal that “hard rain” is coming for the civil service, as Cummings put it last week.This will raise genuine fears of politicisation, and of Johnson surrounding himself with “Yes” men and women. The First Division Association, representing senior officials, accused Downing Street of undermining Sedwill by using “self-defeating, corrosive and cowardly” tactics.His crime was to be seen as a roadblock to Dominic Cummings’s post-Brexit mission – to shake up the civil service.
Please continue to respect all commenters and create constructive debates.Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate?Please be respectful when making a comment and adhere to our There are no Independent Premium comments yet - be the first to add your thoughtsPlease be respectful when making a comment and adhere to our There are no comments yet - be the first to add your thoughtsSedwill was a roadblock to Cummings's vision for the civil service Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when they can to create a true meeting of independent Premium. Sir Philip Rutnam Sedwill is bound by the civil service code, and can exchange nothing more than pleasantries with Boris Johnson, despite having been You don’t get to be head of the civil service without being the ultimate professional, unlike many ministers. The First Division Association, representing senior officials, accused Downing Street of undermining Sedwill by using “self-defeating, corrosive and cowardly” tactics.His crime was to be seen as a roadblock to Dominic Cummings’s post-Brexit mission – to shake up the civil service. Sedwill jumped before he was pushed.


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