Whitehall seeks HR boss amid growing tensions

Job ad comes amid reports of fear and loathing in Whitehall

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The job ad comes following tensions between Dominic Cummings and the civil service
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The Cabinet Office is advertising for a new civil servant to oversee HR policy for government ministers’ special advisers as tensions grow between Number 10 and the rest of Whitehall.

The Special Advisers’ HR Policy Lead role, described as “high profile and stretching”, has an annual salary of £60,000.

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