The impartiality and integrity of the Civil Service is being put at risk due to the rows involving Nadhim Zahawi and Boris Johnson’s financial arrangements, insiders have told theipaper 🔺 janemerrick23 reports:
Cabinet Secretary Simon Case and Whitehall’s propriety and ethics team have been dragged into both affairs, because civil servants offered advice on the arrangements.
A Whitehall insider said there were “huge concerns about the integrity and impartiality of the civil service being undermined” under the current leadership. “Ultimately, civil servants work for the Government of the day and the PM sets the tone. Civil servants advise, they don’t decide.demonstrated, it is the PM not the ethics adviser who decides whether or not the Ministerial Code is broken. Press reports suggest that the propriety and ethics team did raise a red flag on the Zahawi appointment as Chancellor, which was ignored.
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