It was instead, said Sir Mark, a mutual decision between him and Johnson, their having agreed that the roles of cabinet secretary and national security adviser should be split. He has also served as National Security Adviser since 2017. The 55-year-old also made clear his departure was not of his own accord, telling MPs and peers that he had not resigned.It is highly unusual for any civil servant – let alone the most senior – to speak plainly about internal struggles inside government, given Sir Mark is still in post for a further two months. Well potentially, sort of. Sir Mark Sedwill denied any issue with the PM Credit: 2020 Andrew Parsons / Parsons Media Cummings has vowed to overhaul the civil service, which he sees as a …
That was essentially because we had concluded it was time to split the jobs again and have a separate security adviser and separate cabinet secretary.”He said “personalities were not an issue at all” during his time working in Downing Street and insisted he had a good relationship with Mr Johnson. "But it is a regrettable feature of modern politics, I'm afraid. These are external links and will open in a new windowThe UK's top civil servant will receive a payout of almost £250,000 when he steps down in September. Sir Mark Philip Sedwill KCMG FRGS (born 21 October 1964) is a British diplomat, public policy analyst and senior civil servant who has served as Cabinet Secretary to Prime Ministers Theresa May and Boris Johnson and Head of the Civil Service from 2018 to 2020. Details of the payout were released after Sedwill made his first public appearance since his departureBoris Johnson has authorised a “compensation” payment of almost £250,000 to the outgoing cabinet secretary, Sir Mark Sedwill, after he agreed to step down, it has emerged.The government made public a letter from the prime minister to the permanent secretary of the cabinet office, Alex Chisholm, approving the payment, which is likely to be put into Sedwill’s pension pot.In the letter Johnson says Chisholm had advised that, “in consideration of his employment position, and in the circumstances of his role being split, and Sir Mark stepping down early, it would be appropriate to make a compensation payment of £248,189”, and that it would represent value for money.Details of the payout were released after Sedwill made his first public appearance since his departure was announced, complaining that senior officials like him had become “fair game” for hostile briefings in the media.Britain’s most powerful civil servant told the national security strategy select committee that being briefed against had become a “regrettable feature of modern politics” as he was asked why he had agreed to leave the heart of government.“I’m not the only official that’s happened to – indeed, some others have had it worse – but we appear to be in an era where some of us are fair game in the media and I’m afraid it goes with the territory now. And that was essentially because we had concluded that it was time to split the jobs.”He added: “As we move into this next phase of dealing with Covid recovery, we concluded we needed a separate national security adviser, a separate cabinet secretary, and those people should see the prime minister through the rest of this problem.” Sedwill will leave government in September and a competition is open to all past and present permanent secretaries to replace him as cabinet secretary. "I don't think it is ever pleasant in government, whether it is against ministers, between them and particularly against officials, when you have briefings to which you cannot really reply, particularly those that are off the record and sniping away. You can also choose to be emailed when someone replies to your comment.The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Independent Premium. He is also Head of the Civil Service and National Security Adviser. Start your Independent Premium subscription today.Imagine two employment tribunals featuring top civil servants, one hot on the heels of the other. Sir Mark Sedwill (for it is he) has not been sent to the Tower, but to the House of Lords, where he will suffer an expenses-paid life on a fat government pension. My reading of Sir Mark’s words in this case is that “agreed” looks a bit like Sir Mark saying “OK” after Johnson told him this is how it’s going to be in future at Cummings’ behest. If the aim was the avoidance of the s***show to end all s***shows for the Johnson administration then you could actually argue that it would have been cheap at twice the price. Start your Independent Premium subscription today.Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Sir Mark Sedwill was appointed Cabinet Secretary in 2018, he is also the head of the Civil Service and National Security Adviser. Reading between the lines of the coded words of senior civil servants is something of a national tradition.
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