One rule for them

Reports of the appointment of a Labour donor as a Treasury civil servant have triggered a new ‘politicisation’ row and called into question Labour’s commitment to higher ethical standards.

I am in favour of more people being brought into Whitehall from outside. The Civil Service would be stronger, more capable and more genuinely diverse, if a wider number of people from business, academia, the third sector, and other walks of life, spent several years of their career working in Government. And it would be better still, if more officials s…