All news on the topic: Civil servants

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Suella Braverman's 'vanity photo-op' trip to Rwanda cost taxpayers over £40,000
Home Secretary Suella Braverman went to Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, in March to promote her plan to deport refugees there - before her plans were ruled 'unlawful' last month
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Rishi Sunak eyes Cabinet reshuffle as Tories fear by-election drubbing
Rishi Sunak is hoping to reset his premiership as the party faces a bruising night at the polls - with voters due to deliver their verdict on the Tories in three crunch by-elections
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Brits warned about next nationwide 'Armageddon alert' system test
Millions are set to hear a loud alarm from their mobile phones as officials advise the next trial of the emergency alert system should be held in two years' time
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Is the pay rise enough to end public sector strikes - vote in our poll
The Prime Minister has approved salary uplifts for millions of public sector workers after accepting recommendations from pay review bodies’ - but do you think it's enough to end industrial action?
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Fears over public service cuts as Tories fail to offer extra cash for wage hikes
Teachers, troops, prison officers, police, junior doctors and consultants are being offered pay rises - but critics warned that failing to fully fund the wage increases would mean cuts elsewhere
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Government humiliated as High Court rules draconian anti-strike laws are illegal
Legislation pushed through by former Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has been thrown out by the High Court in a huge victory for unions
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Lawyers probe Nadine Dorries for 'forceful' messages over blocked peerage
In a savage dig at Nadine Dorries, Tory MP William Wragg - who chairs Parliament's Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee - described her as the 'lingering MP for Mid Bedfordshire'
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Fresh Sue Gray spat as probe finds she broke civil service rules before quitting
The Partygate investigator was last week cleared to start her new job in September - but today a minister announced she'd had "undeclared contact" with Labour before quitting
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Grieving widow says 'talk is cheap' as Covid victims turn backs on Matt Hancock
The former Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock did not take any personal blame as some victims who lost loves ones to Covid shouted "killer" as he left the Covid Inquiry
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'Stephen Lawrence suspect revelation too late for family but not for Met Police'
News that Matthew White should also have faced charges over the racist murder which rocked our nation are a tough reminder of the changes still needed in the Met following the Casey Review
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Brave Ukrainians ready to take fight to Putin after special training in the UK
The British Army have been running basic infantry training courses since June last year and have so far helped train 17,000 Ukrainian troops in how to perform life-saving treatments.
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Royal Navy aircraft carrier repair bill rises to £25m - and you're going to pay
MPs heard the cost of fixing the faulty propeller on HMS Prince of Wales had climbed to £25m - and it will come out of the Navy's budget because the Ministry of Defence did not take out a 'warranty'
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Pigs strewn across road after truck carrying them crashes and kills five
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: The employers of truck driver Majoto Kajiyama and bus conductor Tayakuki Kozen said each man had more than a decade of driving experience before five people died in Hokkaido, Japan
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Diversity training at Home Office increases under Suella Braverman
The Home Secretary complained the sessions were 'riddled with left-wing views' as part of her vendetta against so-called 'woke' culture, but training has increased on her watch
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How the Mirror broke Partygate scandal that torpedoed Johnson's political career
Our exclusive splash in December 2021 told how Boris Johnson had given a speech at a packed leaving do in November 2020 and staff held boozy parties
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Osborne tells moaning Tories to stop blaming Whitehall 'blob' for their mess
The Conservative stalwart, who unleashed devastating austerity cuts in 2010, told a Tory event: 'We are in charge of our country’s destiny and we should stop blaming others if we don’t get things right'
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Fury that Kevin Sinfield could wait years for knighthood due to stuffy rules
The Mirror understands some civil servants are disappointed protocol around awarding honours means Kevin Sinfield may have to wait years to become a Sir
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Boris Johnson WhatsApp drama explained as it poses big problem for Rishi Sunak
An ugly legal spat has erupted between the Government and the official Covid-19 inquiry which it set up after officials were ordered to hand over tens of thousands of unedited messages. Here we explain what's happening after days of twists and turns
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Boris Johnson fails to hand 16 months of WhatsApps to inquiry from old phone
The former PM was forced to switch phone in April 2021 after it emerged that his personal number had been freely available online for 15 years
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Leaked email shows Tory used civil servants for Labour attack in 'rule breach'
Labour warned that Transport Secretary Mark Harper had 'been caught red-handed misusing the civil service for political gain' after the Mirror got hold of a secret email
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11 awkward questions as Covid inquiry demands Boris Johnson's missing WhatsApps
An ugly legal row could see a court showdown between the Government and the official Covid-19 Inquiry over the shamed former PM's messages and missing notepads
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Letters: 'Suella Braverman is a liability to the government'
Mirror reader Andrew Milroy says Suella Braverman consistently makes poor judgements and is a liability to the government. But do YOU agree?
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'Chancellor looks relaxed as higher interest rates push Britain into recession'
Kevin Maguire writes that Jeremy Hunt is relaxed about plunging Britain into recession - no wonder Labour and Keir Starmer are enjoying healthy double-digit poll leads
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'Suella Braverman missed a valuable lesson by swerving speed awareness course'
Rachael Bletchly says sitting through a public speed awareness course may have made Home Secretary Suella Braverman a more thoughtful politician as well as a safer drive
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'Every Tory Brexit promise is in the toilet, and they threw Britain in after it'
13 years after promising to get net migration down to "the tens of thousands", it's the highest ever recorded., says Fleet Street Fox. This is government by goon