Whitehall is adrift

As Downing Street factions engage in a circular briefing war, there's a lame duck Cabinet Secretary, no Downing Street Principal Private Secretary, and no clarity over the National Security Adviser

Labour’s first Conference as a governing party for a decade and a half, was overshadowed by a growing row over cronyism and freebies. And - although it’s clear that there’s much more to come on that, including about the messy links between donations and Government appointments [more on that later] - back in SW1, things in Whitehall are adrift.

Three of t…