Coming up @BBCNewsnight after quite a week for party politics, culminating in Number 10 apologising to the Queen @lewis_goodall unearths the guest list for the latest revealed party …. At 2230
Sir Simon Fraser, former leading diplomat told me: “this is not only a question of the behaviour of the PM.. But also civil servants who have been working at the heart of government seem to have been caught up in this series of bad decision making." #Newsnight
“how is it that they have actually been involved in not only attending, but convening these parties? I think that is an issue that is, I’m afraid, going to have to be looked at, and is damaging for the Civil Service,” said Sir Simon to me on #Newsnight
On Sue Gray, Sir Simon says there is “a vacuum” in system…as “she doesn’t really have the authority, her own standing to make any recommendation/decision. who is she reporting to? Not the Cabinet Secretary. The PM, but he is a subject of the report…big question mark about this”
Ex minister and MP Alastair Burt on #Newsnight re PM "There’s no escape. Either you convince people that something very bad has happened but you take responsibility and you will change or something bad will happen. No operation to save anybody is going to change those judgements"
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