With dwindling real-terms pay still a sore point, Whitehall staff feel the Raab bullying case has only unleashed more hostility
“Almost every civil servant I talk to is looking for a way out,” says Jill Rutter, a former Treasury official and now an expert on Whitehall.
It’s hardly a surprise after the last few years: civil servants have been demonised as workshy by former Cabinet Office minister Jacob Rees-Mogg, blamed for the Partygate scandal by Boris Johnson and threatened with 91,000 job cuts.
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