The education secretary, Gavin Williamson, has lurched from disaster to entirely foreseeable disaster ever since schools closed in March, yet sails on regardless, even as the bodies of his civil servants pile up around him. This isn’t some dusty constitutional question or slippery political game, but a form of rough justice with real consequences for real lives. If the aim of this Whitehall purge is to restore public confidence then it’s arguably having the opposite effect. “We’re getting quite a lot of pushback from organisations, especially ones who don’t normally have much to do with us. And sooner or later, it’s going to run out of other people to blame.

Source: The Guardian August 28, 2020 04:52 UTC