Exclusive: Ethics watchdog castigates government over power imbalance and affect on morale of erosion in conventions
Ministers’ disparaging public attacks on civil servants have damaged staff retention and morale in Whitehall, the government’s ethics watchdog has said.
Government officials have been castigated for being “obstructive and furthering their own agenda”, according to the committee on standards in public life, which pointed to an erosion of the normal conventions that govern their relationship with ministers.
