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Process of pinning the whole COVID era on scapegoats unfolding nicely.Apparently the reason Sue Gray resigned from the civil service is because the Cabinet Secretary Simon Case (top civil servant) vetoed her promotion to permanent secretary of Badenoch's department (Badenoch was keen). That ended her chance of promotion at any point and never having a shot at becoming Cabinet Secretary in due course - so she quit.
Oh, also the Times is reporting that Case was involved in the 800k loan facilitation, and then decided that it could be kept secret.
He's not got a lot of credibility left.
Glad if Case goes. Always seemed to me Heywood being experienced and settled in the role was highly inconvenient to Boris, who wanted total control. That's the Boris story. Anyone with any real clout has to go, he can't deal with it threatening him.
Having said that, I'm immediately suspicious. The BBC guy has to go. He really must. Absolute farce, Tories rigging the venerable institutions like that. They have to swear off it, put it all behind them.