Cabinet Office Chaos Continues as Propriety and Ethics Chief Exits – Guido Fawkes

Cabinet Office Chaos Continues as Propriety and Ethics Chief Exits

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Yesterday Darren Tierney – not a statistician – was appointed new permanent secretary for the struggling Office for National Statistics. He’s finally got his exit…

Tierney has served as director general in the Cabinet Office’s Propriety and Constitution Group (formerly ethics) since 2021. Sources say he was holding a struggling department together…

The now-perm sec was one of three pillars keeping the Cabinet Office – the engine of the Civil Service- afloat while Cabinet Secretary Chris Wormald does nothing of any use. Guido reported back in June that Tierney was trying to leave…

Tierney had a wide brief and frequently popped up in ministerial and high-level political dealings. Sources say that Director General Matt Collins and Deputy National Security Adviser Jonathan Black are also eyeing an exit. Dark tidings for Labour out of recess…