Civil servants union boss writes to Starmer over ‘frankly insulting’ criticism
by Rowena Mason Whitehall editor from World news | The Guardian on (#6SR9K)
Exclusive: FDA general secretary urges PM to rethink Trumpian' language about Whitehall
The head of the senior civil servants' union has written to Keir Starmer urging him to rethink his frankly insulting" criticism of Whitehall for being comfortable with falling standards.
The general secretary of the FDA, the union for senior civil servants, suggested Starmer had invoked Trumpian" language by claiming not to want to drain the swamp" but having gone on to say that too many people in Whitehall are comfortable in the tepid bath of managed decline".
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