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21 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Really, as the Torygraph’s chief political correspondent, @christopherhope should know that senior civil servants are *already* subject to performance reviews. This is basic.
Also, it is a myth (derived from one of the less accurate episodes of “Yes, Minister” that Ministers are forbidden from talking to (or “quizzing”) “junior civil servants”.
The real story - which @christopherhope may have missed - would be if Patel (after several years as a Minister) or her Spads still haven’t cottoned onto the fact that senior civil servants have performance reviews or that she can talk to junior civil servants if she wants to.
If so, that might suggest that it isn’t the civil servants in the Home Office who need annual performance reviews.
The alternative is that @christopherhope has been spun a largely dud story.

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This piece is a bit confused but draws attention to an important point.
The SI it refers to revokes the recognition *in the UK* of the EU common ski instructor test: legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1038… (see (a)).
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This is fascinating: and also provides a case-book example of the potential value of judicial review. Thread.
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A disaster for whom?
And if it is a disaster, what’s his alternative?
There is, after all, a rather obvious one, which the Scottish Government would no doubt be happy to discuss with him.
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I’m not involved in any of these cases. The current government may have answers to many of these concerns.
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15 Nov
Not sure that @timothy_stanley knows what he is talking about. Neither reducing the no. of judges nor “bringing in specialists” amounts to “rolling back” “Blair era” reforms. The HoL judicial committee had the same number of judges as now, and were no less (or more) “specialist”.
Entirely unclear what “specialist” means here, anyway. Though some have argued that there are too many commercial lawyers and not enough crime/family specialists.
The article is a mess anyway: perhaps because whatever is being discussed is also a mess.
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Well, quite. Though note that the job was originally (in 1998) given to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords in different clothes).
Some other comments on the story.
Since the judiciary don’t want to be settling political arguments raising no real legal issues (and they don’t, and dispose of them fast), what’s the problem?
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