Starmer: Civil Service reforms will ‘maximise collective power of the state’ Sir Keir Starmer has written to half a million civil servants promising to ‘transform your work for the better’.

Since the British Civil Service is by definition impeccable and incorruptible, and since the permanent secretary of a ministry—such as Sir Warren Fisher at the Treasury or Sir Robert Vansittart ...

Taxpayers will foot a £239m bill for a new civil servants’ pension scheme administrator despite the company’s “failing” track record, its critics have said.

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a professional, merit-based civil service since shortly after the Civil War.