has labour flooded the civil service with its own ? in civil service with its own? your words, boys and girls, clearly not. you've given a couple of examples. is there any evidence so far that the ministerial code has been broken? i don't think there is. if it turns out that the ministerial code has been broken, then of course there will have to be repercussions. and i don't care whether you're left, right or in the middle. we should all stand up for an independent civil service. >> well, you say it says they're impartial. should be impartial, henry, which i totally agree with. but i know from serving as an mp for the conservative party, they weren't at all impartial. a lot of the time. and one of the jobs is, you know, if i'm honest of the civil service is to push back sometimes on ministers and say, look, you shouldn't be doing this or you should be doing this, that's fine. but ultimately, the politicians make the decisions and, you know, if it goes wrong, it's their fault. but indeed, can it be impartial, >> i think the civil service can be impartial. it's about

the supposedly apolitical civil service.'ve also got wahid ali, a long time labour donor who has donated over £500,000 to the party, and get this 16,000 specifically for a new wardrobe for keir starmer. well, it turns out he was given a number 10 security pass, allowing him easier access to the building. now for what reason exactly remains unclear, but it seems it's all okay because starmer is going to tell us tomorrow that things will get better, but they have to get worse first. apparently that is the message that will be delivered tomorrow. so is the honeymoon period, i guess officially over for sir keir? mark, how much should we make of this sleaze scandal, these allegations against the prime minister? yeah, i'm not too bothered about the civil service appointments because to be honest with you, i politicised the civil service. >> i think you should be able to appoint people as your policy advisers that, you know, respect like her on the page with you and the rest of it. this chap, however, who's given half £1 million to

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as you said, there are a couple of other instances over civil service jobs being handed out to those ve very close ties to the party. one of them is ian corfield, who was supposed to be a director within the treasury as a civil servant until it emerged that he'd given a £20,000 to labour and a few thousand pounds to reeves personally. he has now stepped back following that scrutiny, and there are even questions over whether rachel reeves should be investigated, because for breaching the ministerial ministerial code, because the civil service watchdog, which approved all these appointments didn't know about those donations before they arrived. so that's the context of this. it will continue to build momentum when parliament is back next week because, as i say, the hypocrisy or the perceived hypocrisy or the perceived hypocrisy is what's central to this absolutely fascinating stuff there, adam, particularly this this interesting shift that's happened, perhaps this double speak that we're getting from the government that first this pass was handed to this donon >> there was obfuscation t

meanwhile, the government has quietly dropped tory plans to cut 66,000 civil service jobs. cision to scrap the planned cuts came after he appointed sue gray, a former civil servant, as his all powerful chief of staff. all right, we're going to deal with these two stories, consecutively. i'm going to start with the old bondage gear. so to shed more light on this, we now welcome inclusive culture expert joanne lockwood. joanne, thank you very much. should civil servants be allowed to wear fetish gear at work ? wear fetish gear at work? >> hi, patrick, thanks for inviting me back , the question inviting me back, the question here really is, does the organisation, does the civil servants have an acceptable dress code policy and the acceptable dress code policy should dictate how people present themselves at work. and the fact that this person happens to be a transgender woman shouldn't be the news story here. many people come to work, many men in shorts and sandals. women come to work with short skirts and low cut tops. doesn't make the daily mail, doesn't make the daily telegra

and, you know, this really devalues the civil service claim to be impartial. i think an awful lot of senior civil servants are outraged by it. what do you think? >> i don't disagree, i'm certainly not here to defend the labour party. i'll always call out what i think is right or wrong, i think actually the more shocking thing is somebody that tries to be a little bit fashion conscious is that he's getting his suits from asos because they fall apart like a cheap suit. literally, i wouldn't, i wouldn't have bothered. i would say actually, keir's image has improved. i used to loathe the glasses, he used to wear and i think the rounded rims actually look a lot better on him. but no, i think it's, i just don't think i think this works regardless of who's in, i think the hypocrisy charge is fair because labour have called it out for five years and actually they've done similar if not worse, i just think, well, how do you clamp down on it? this this is as old as time. the fact that people will sort out jobs for the boys and for their friends. and we had it with, you

i want to talk about those quotas in civil - talk about those quotas in civil service jobs, talk aboutcejobs, the talk about those quotas in civil service jobs, the courts talk about those quotas in civil servicejobs, the courts have abolished them and it feels like on some level it has started there. what was the reaction at the time because looking at this, you are wondering, could this, could the prime minister have conserved her power rather than ended up here where she has had to flee to safety. what was the reaction initially? do you think there was a missed opportunity for her and her government, or did they seem like it was going to implode no matter what? i think part of why this ended up the way it did is because of the harsh crackdown on these student protests. remember, the death that we saw on sunday, almost 100 people killed, that wasn'tjust we saw on sunday, almost 100 people killed, that wasn't just something that just killed, that wasn't just something thatjust happened. this came after we saw protests that were brutally shut down by police and saw that there were some

but but what this doesn't mean is that the civil service will suddenly balloon into even greater sizeone differently and done properly , along alongside done properly, along alongside the public service. >> so important . jacob. >> so important. jacob. actually, one of the things we were talking about was paying people more, but having fewer of them. we pay an awful lot of people, not very well to do jobs badly . that is a terrible way to badly. that is a terrible way to run the state. this obsession with people not being paid more than the prime minister, which is complete irrelevance, which stops the best people being brought into jobs that needs to go brought into jobs that needs to 9° pay brought into jobs that needs to go pay people more, have many , go pay people more, have many, many fewer of them. >> moutaz ahmed, what was your are you a pro work from home person or is it not good? >> i've been forced to work from home at times, but no, i'm not, not happy. it's not. it's not good for your career and it's not good for productivity. it just doesn't work, and i'm definitely not a

as per trump's executive order, schedule f employees would lose civil service job protections which meantsier. they would essentially become political appointees, hired and fired at the will of the president and possibly replaced by somebody who may not be equally or better qualified, but who won't question the trump administration's agenda or method of doing things. it is a system designed to reward loyalty over expertise. james sherk, who served in the trump white house and drafted the executive order said that his team quote, estimated the order would apply to about 50,000 employees in the executive branch out of 2.2 million. positions that could be lost by people loyal to the constitution of the united states and given to trump loyalists. some say that might even be a conservative estimate of the number of affected a place could be higher than that but because joe biden defeated donald trump in the 2020 election, because elections matter, schedule f never took effect. two days after biden took office, he revoked trump's executive order writing that not only was the patient of schedule

but but what this doesn't mean is that the civil service will suddenly balloon into even greater sizedone differently and done properly , along alongside done properly, along alongside the public service. >> so important . jacob. >> so important. jacob. actually, one of the things we were talking about was paying people more, but having fewer of them. we pay an awful lot of people, not very well to do jobs badly . that is a terrible way to badly. that is a terrible way to run the state. this obsession with people not being paid more than the prime minister, which is complete irrelevance, which stops the best people being brought into jobs that needs to go brought into jobs that needs to 9° pay brought into jobs that needs to go pay people more, have many , go pay people more, have many, many fewer of them. >> moutaz ahmed, what was your are you a pro work from home person or is it not good? >> i've been forced to work from home at times, but no, i'm not, not happy. it's not. it's not good for your career and it's not good for productivity. it just doesn't work, and i'm definitely not

but you just said has there ever been an impartial civil service?, of course, no individual is perfectly impartial. we all have mixed motives. we all have our own points of view. but i actually do think there was a time when certainly there was a stronger sense of duty in the civil service to enact what ministers told them to do. elected ministers told them to do regardless of whether or not they agreed with it. and i think that has broken down, and i think that certainly conservative ministers had lost trust in the civil service to enact what they told them to do, regardless of their own personal beliefs. and i wouldn't be surprised if actually labour ministers are feeling the same. now, of course, we tend to think that civil service civil servants often lean left, and i think that's probably true. but even so, i could quite understand why ministers want to have people in place who support them. but of course, there is a there are allowed political appointments. they're called special advisers. but absolutely, civil service appointments are not all

on a fairly narrow , specific bangladeshi internal issue of reform. quotas for admission to the civil servicebangladesh, and escalated in the absence of a proper response from sheikh hasina, her government, now now uprising, in fact. maria dmitrievna, could you explain what this quota problem is? yes, the quota problem has been discussed for a long time and until this year, 30% of the places were reserved for admission to the civil service. for the descendants of the heroes of the 1971 war, this war is comparable in significance for bangladesh, as for us, the great patriotic war, in this regard, there really are a lot of citizens who were then still fighting for the independence of the east bengalis from pakistan, they sacrificed their lives there, and a quota system was created for the heroes of the war then back in the seventies. knees, which - current young people in the country find not quite fair. this quota was canceled in 2018, but on june 5 , information appeared that the supreme court had issued a ruling on its restoration. it would seem that everything is not so bad, 30% of places,

by the civil service commission. matters. well, all right, i mean, that's their argument for now, isn't it? but people will be keeping a very close eye on this. now, lee, in an unsurprising turn of events, labour's union paymasters aren't satisfied by bumper pay rises and are now effectively demanding more money for less work. on top of a 14% pay for less work. on top of a 14% pay rise. the transport salaried staffs association has demanded 58 days off per year, and a 55 hour week for its members, and the tsa are likely to get their way too, because they were one of the three trade unions that met with the department for transport officials for negotiations yesterday . so, lee, negotiations yesterday. so, lee, is this where we are now, which is this where we are now, which is that unions are going to be getting more money for less work? >> well, it is patrick. this is a free meal ticket for the pubuc a free meal ticket for the public sector workers and the trade unions responsible at a time. patrick, when we look at

what i see here is a completely undermining of the civil service impartiality.exact thing that labour said would not happen when they were elected. and it's taken a month . yeah. so and it's taken a month. yeah. so i think i think it reeks of cronyism and sleaze. no it does. >> i agree with you. it does. and actually the, you know, the vetting committee said, well, we haven't heard anything about it. we didn't know anything about these donations. and you just have to say, well, hang on a minute. the labour party said that they were going to clean up the tory act that had just been here for over a decade, and now, well , they're just as culpable well, they're just as culpable as they said. the tories were. >> and alongside that, they've got sue gray in the biggest position of power that anyone could have in that government. campaigning for her own little pet project in ireland against sir keir starmer, against or his son, who's now in, in government. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i mean, andrew, what do you make of that? because you've got a lot to say about the civil ser

it seemed to shatter the illusion of civil service impartiality.fending the now downing street chief of staff. over the past few weeks we have seen extraordinary power battle being waged for control of downing street, with repeated briefings coming out of downing street against sue and undermining her position. she has been accused of all sorts of things, of pretending, protecting people from going to the prime minister even stopping the prime minister even stopping the cabinet secretary, simon case, getting in to see the prime minister and the question is where has this come from? is this power struggle with morgan mcsweeney, starmer's head of staff, going to have an effect on how downing street is run , or on how downing street is run, or is the prime minister going to find that he can't actually hold on to her? this is a really key power struggle going on in downing street at the moment. anyway, i'm absolutely delighted now that we have got matthew laza to discuss this a former labour adviser, matthew, thank you very much for coming on tonight.

it seemed to shatter the illusion of civil service impartiality.fending the now downing street chief of staff. over the past few weeks we have seen extraordinary power battle being waged for control of downing street, with repeated briefings coming out of downing street against sue and undermining her position. she has been accused of all sorts of things, of pretending, protecting people from going to the prime minister even stopping the prime minister even stopping the cabinet secretary, simon case, getting in to see the prime minister and the question is where has this come from? is this power struggle with morgan mcsweeney, starmer's head of staff, going to have an effect on how downing street is run , or on how downing street is run, or is the prime minister going to find that he can't actually hold on to her? this is a really key power struggle going on in downing street at the moment. anyway, i'm absolutely delighted now that we have got matthew laza to discuss this a former labour adviser, matthew, thank you very much for coming on tonight.

was political , whereas their job was political, whereas their job was political, whereas the civil serviceather wonderfully supposed to be neutral and impartial because the same civil servants, the same officials have to provide the same service to governments of whatever stripe, and they cannot do so if they are compromised. and what we've seen in this last few weeks is people who are highly compromised by their previous association with the labour party being taken on as civil servants . servants. >> one of the things i was struck by in your piece was you quote tony blair saying that the labour party is the political wing of the british people , wing of the british people, which seems to me an enormously entitled thing to say, a very arrogant view of the world, which then means, of course, you can appoint who you like, because it's what the british people want, where their political wing. we are the masters now. >> well, very much so. it's certainly arrogant, but it's also, i think, frightening, as what i said in my article this morning, because if you say that the labour party is the br

, the independent civil service.hese aren't just the normal special advisers that all governments make political to . governments make political to. appointments these are some of the top roles in the independent civil service that labour has been giving to donors and its political supporters. so it's pretty rich to talk about trust in politics at the same time as that. >> in other news, now three men have been arrested after a stabbing at notting hill carnival that left a 32 year old mother fighting for her life. it comes after five more people were stabbed and 230 arrested on the closing day of the event. police have also said that 15 officers were assaulted and 90 arrests were made on the first day of the event . from today, day of the event. from today, the nhs 111 helpline will now offer mental health support to adults and children in crisis. local health systems previously had their own separate phone lines, which took about 200,000 calls per month. it makes the nhs in england one of the first countries to offe

there is a big difference the way they are just handing out civil service jobs to obvious labour formloyees. that's that is somewhat new. it's different to quangos. it's a new level of blatant. >> it's more direct than a quango. at least it's more efficient, isn't it? straight to the person who's giving the money. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> well, all right, we can move on to the mail on sunday. louis, what have they got for us? >> mail on sunday. >> mail on sunday. >> kirsty's fury as social services probe her son's interrail trip . and this is this interrail trip. and this is this is the tv presenter kirstie allsopp. who was who i don't she was like going in and out of houses in some way or selling houses. >> it's an interesting way of describing location, location, location. i went in and out of houses, you know, like no one ever goes in and out of houses. >> yeah, well, it's the kind of thing you watch for a second. >> you see her going into the house. she's not going out of the house. she's asking, would you buy this house? of course. i used to be an estate salesman. nobody

labour has dispensed with previous tory plans to cut 66,000 civil service jobs. boris it was 91,000, but they cut it back . 91,000, but they cut it back. the number of civil servants has risen dramatically in recent years, with every possible excuse used to justify the increase . mr hunt's plan to increase. mr hunt's plan to reduce it was lower than mine, as i've said, and would have freed up billions of pounds of savings. starmer's plans to halt these cuts have been criticised for prioritising whitehall over the taxpayer. while my panel is still here, amy, surely even you would like fewer civil servants that you have to pay for out of your hard earned tax money? >> well, i'm sure everyone would agree with that, but unfortunately it's a little bit misleading to say it would save the taxpayer money, because every time civil service jobs get axed, they get replaced with more expensive contractors who generally cost 4 to 5 times more. so in the last few years, billions have been spent on these replacements to fill in for civil service jobs, which will call them in bu

labour has dispensed with previous tory plans to cut 66,000 civil service jobs. with boris it was 91,000, but they cut it back . 91,000, but they cut it back. the number of civil servants has risen dramatically in recent years, with every possible excuse used to justify the increase . mr hunt's plan to increase. mr hunt's plan to reduce it was lower than mine, as i've said, and would have freed up billions of pounds of savings. starmer's plans to halt these cuts have been criticised for prioritising whitehall over the taxpayer. while my panel is still here, amy, surely even you would like fewer civil servants that you have to pay for out of your hard earned tax money? >> well, i'm sure everyone would agree with that, but unfortunately it's a little bit misleading to say it would save the taxpayer money, because every time civil service jobs get axed, they get replaced with more expensive contractors who generally cost 4 to 5 times more. so in the last few years, billions have been spent on these replacements to fill in for civil service jobs, which will call them

, the independent civil service.rmal special advisers that all governments make political appointments to. these are some of the top roles in the independent civil service that labour has been giving to donors and its political supporters . so and its political supporters. so it's pretty rich to talk about trust in politics at the same time as that deputy prime minister angela rayner says it was horrific to see the damage done to the dagenham tower block that caught fire yesterday . that caught fire yesterday. >> everyone was accounted for and no injuries reported after a major incident was declared following the fire in east london, over 100 people were evacuated from the building , evacuated from the building, with two people taken to hospital. angela rayner says the london fire brigade has launched a full investigation . a full investigation. >> that's horrific to hear that and i know that the london fire brigade have already started an investigation. i don't want to pre—empt that investigation , but pre—empt that

you should not be able to have people coming into the into the civil service as established civil servantsr they've given huge donations to the labour party. it's just wrong. >> but i heard someone from the labour party trying to defend that. i think it was last night and he was saying, hang on, if someone's been committed to the labour party, you know, ad infinitum, he's wealthy enough to give some money. why should he then be excluded from helping advance that government in a apparently neutral role within civil service? >> the civil service is politically neutral, and you can't you cannot serve in it while openly professing a political allegiance. that's a constitutional point. that's what it's for. it has to be able to serve any government that's elected by the people. and if it's full of political placemen, it's full of political placemen, it can't do that. the americans have a politicised civil service and it doesn't work very well. and if that's what you have, that's what you have. we don't have it and we shouldn't start getting one now. >> well, of course, don't forget starmer. he

the schedule and project 2025 changes that. >> as you noted civil service.a these people are doing public service. they're not doing it for the money. they're not doing it for the hours or the perks. they're doing it because it is actually a service. and one of the things is reclassify what would be civil service positions and sort of reorients them around something that allows them to be treated as political appointees. >> we're not talking about 50 jobs or 500 jobs or 5,000 jobs. we're talking about 50,000 positions in the american government that you and i would think of as civil service jobs occupied by people whose names we don't know and will never know reclassified as political jobs. that sounds like countries that we talk about that have unstable governments. >> that's right. and if you think about this in the context of what the right-wing has railed against not just their ideas, but one of the things we heard over and over again was that it was the deep state that was stopping donald trump from implementing a lot of the policies that the rest of th

, was your answer. appointed to the civil service, was your answer . , that process doesn't really matter when the task is so urgent. and if you are talking about honesty and service, can you not just explain why you appointed some of these people? why lord alli, for example, had a downing street pass, what he was doing here? and again on beth mead you said clearly wealth taxes are in the frame. are you also saying to people that spending further spending cuts are also being looked at? >> well, let me be clear. i wasn't saying process doesn't matter. i think you and others have heard enough from me over the years to know that process does matter to me. procedures do matter to me, and i am absolutely determined to restore honesty and integrity to government because i think that is core to ensuring that people appreciate that politics can be appreciate that politics can be a force for good. i think one of the reasons people have been disillusioned and disaffected, if you like, in recent years, is because they can't see politics as a force for good. so tha

another idea, which was also voiced today, concerns attracting young people to the civil service, thisbe helped by the formation of a youth council, which will unite young people who work in various departments will help them promote their ideas further to the higher management, here all the ideas received not only an expert assessment from the commission, but some received their personal assessment from sergei kiriyenko. in the civil service, so that he would choose this mission of service as your calling in life, your project will become much stronger if, in addition to just a very correct description of the entire spectrum of what youth councils could and should do, you , using the example of, for example, your departments or some other areas with which you interacted, would have already made an analysis of the problem field and maybe some analysis of best practices. works, that gives results, i did not have enough of this. let me remind you that this year the forum became international for the first time, this once the participants arrived. the forum organizers noted that this year

how would we make a step change in terms of how the civil service?o do is, obviously the opposition party government, if it looks like they're going to go into government, they need to be getting their people ready . it's getting their people ready. it's more of a political role, isn't it, to ensure that actually legislation can get through? i mean, we saw with rwanda it had so many blocks from civil servants and unions. that's that's so undemocratic. quite. >> well, i'd probably get rid of them all. and start again. frankly, i think that might be the only way to move on. anyway, coming up next, on the saturday, saturday five, we'll be discussing whether members of parliament should give up freebies. freebies from tobacco, alcohol and junk food firms because they apparently caused so much illness and death. i wonder . what for? sorry. i beg wonder. what for? sorry. i beg your pardon. everybody what former andrea jenkins thinks of this with your with the saturday five. we'll be back in just a minute. welcome back to the saturday five. sorry about that

, the civil service, the british civil service is fabulous.ild a rapport with them. you don't need to bring in lots of people from the outside to be able to get to get results. trust the civil service >> very final quick question. you are a former labour adviser. ministers are facing a backbench rebellion over the planned cuts to winter fuel payments. would your advice be to go back on this ? this? >> i think i think you've got to be very careful and judge what the cost benefit analysis of doing anything like this. you move into this space, you upset an awful lot of people and you've got to ask yourself, is it really worth it? the amounts of money that you raise? my take on it would be, no, it isn't . on it would be, no, it isn't. >> okay. brilliant. kevin, thank you very much for joining us this morning. you very much for joining us this morning . thank you. this morning. thank you. >> thanks, kevin. >> thanks, kevin. >> yes, indeed. right up next, the other big event is the bank houday the other big event is the bank holiday weekend. hope yo

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firms, private corporations, some went abroad and so on, but practically... no one went into the civil serviceit was not quite like that. now i think that if the child of a civil servant wants to go into the civil service, this should only be welcomed, this means that in the family he was brought up with the right sense of patriotism, in fact, when you look at some of our leaders, whose children study abroad and do not return, stay there, create families and, in fact , continue their lives there, well, for me this is an indicator of the upbringing. appropriate in such families, therefore, as much as i would welcome, of course, parents should also look to ensure that their child, who goes to work, still has his own life, you cannot steal the life of your son or daughter, that is, you can only push towards something, advise something, here, but to pull him, to pull him through all the steps of the career ladder, i am absolutely sure, it is impossible, otherwise he will lose himself at some point, when there is no such support, he will be left alone with his problems, it will turn out that he can

i thought about the fifth risk when i saw the project 2025 section about the civil service and also whene clip. i think that book is sort of about how central and essential exactly that vast expertise basis is to running the entire country. >> it's like one of the great untold stories of our era that the civil service. it is what the president is supposed to be managing or at least not screwing up. when you actually go in and ask what they do. you find the most amazing stories. it is not boring. it sounds boring and there are people who are engaged passionately. with subjects they have, obsessed with. i wrote the fifth risk. i was kind of shocked by how great the material was and by how receptive the audience was to it. what we have done starting tuesday. i brought in six other writers. i say here is the literary opportunity of your career. we have parachuted them into different parts of the federal government. they are going to run once a week until the election. the writer was told to go find something that interests you. after about five minutes they all came out and said how did i no

, the independent civil service, the independent civil service.e normal special advisers that all governments make political appointments to. these are some of the top roles in the independent civil service that labour has been giving to donors and its political supporters. so it's pretty rich to talk about trust in politics at the same time as that. i hope that he uses this as an opportunity to address, to rescind those appointments. but there are really important issues for stowlawn magnus, the independent adviser on ministerial interests, to see if the ministerial code has been broken, as many of us believe it has . has. >> but he will use the rose garden, won't he, for the location for his speech at 10:00 this morning, which so many people will, whether they were conservatives or not, forever associate. and he's written in the times about it this morning with the swing being broken by the staff at downing street dunng the staff at downing street during the lockdown, regulations dunng during the lockdown, regulations during covid, where we saw

they are not doing it for the money. >> it reclassifies what would be civil service positions and orientsintees. >> we are not talking about 50 jobs or 500 jobs or 5,000 jobs. we are talking 50,000 positions in the american government that you and i would think of as civil service jobs. occupied by people whose names we don't know and will never know. reclassified as political jobs. that sounds like countries that we talk about that have unstable governments. >> that's right. and you know, if you think about this in the context of what the right wing has railed against. not just their ideas, but one of the things we heard over and over and over again was that there was the deep state that was stopping donald trump from implementing a lot of the policies that the rest of the right wing really wanted and this is really a way to sort of go with what the right wing has identified as the deep state. the civil servants. that is why they see this as a mechanism. it is not just what is being proposed. it is that they actually unlike last time around when trump got into office and after he lost th

his appointment had to be approved by the civil service commission , by the civil service commission,rently not made aware of that donation . there is aware of that donation. there is aware of that donation. there is a good chance this will lead to an investigation into rachel reeves and looking at labour's own stance on things like this, wouldn't she have to go? >> i made very clear that if any of my candidates was being investigated in relation to the gambling commission, i'd remove them straight away, which is what i've done. that's in a sharp contrast to rishi sunak, who took days and days and days before he took action. there's a wider story here about the choice that the general election next week. >> but it's not just the labour leader saying this. the deputy leader saying this. the deputy leader has said it too. even if mr caulfield has now stepped into an unpaid advisory role. angela rayner well, she said this in the past hasn't she? >> well, i think he's trying to take the british for public fools, you know, he's not sorry that he attended clearly attended a party. he knows

beggars belief. >> can i just say, though , i >> can i just say, though, i don't agree, that the civil servicevil servant and i think that's very rude . think that's very rude. >> no, i think it is very rude to describe having been a minister. it's still rude. well it's the truth. >> are they. would you would you argue they are left leaning the civil service. >> i mean people were starting at me, in meetings. absolutely. >> no, i don't notice that. and ispeak >> no, i don't notice that. and i speak to quite a few of them. >> well, they may tut tut. but the civil servants are their civil servants to execute the government's will and that's what they do in america. >> we need a system like america, the winner of the union jack award tonight is rachel reeves. >> she said she didn't know there was going to be such a big black hole in government. of course she did. she gave an interview to the financial times weeks before the election, saying, we've got the obr, there'll be no surprises. i can't just walk into the treasury. anyway that's enough for tonight. thank you. panel. really appreciate you b

everything started as a demonstration of students dissatisfied with the system of quotas in the civil service, and it turned into... protests against the authorities and calls for the immediate resignation of the government. bbc correspondent akbar hussain works in a dacha and will explain why. prime minister sheikha sina and her party failed to understand the public mood, they failed to respond properly to the protests. the authorities could not understand what was happening, and neither did she tried to understand what young people want. the youth in bangladesh have never been more politically aware than they are now. young people wanted justice in society. one of the problems was the employment quotas, another problem was the lack of credible elections. in 2014, 2018 and 2024. western countries did not recognize these elections. the authorities completely destroyed the opposition, they were not allowed to participate in the elections. the human rights situation was very bad. international human rights organizations have constantly criticized the sheykhasina government, the authorities, but

church of satan, go on. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> well, what's going on at the civil service?y? >> this is it. this is what's going on. and this is the crazy thing. this person is actually providing the training to the rest of the civil service about these issues. now, a lot of the time, for the last couple of years, we've been talking about institutional capture and how it's a few people who have who have led to these policies been put in place in places like, you know, things like the nhs and the rest of the country and use it utilising language like, you know, breastfeeder as opposed to or, you know, as opposed to a woman or chest feeder, i should say. and whatnot. and then you find out that this is one of the people who is the driving forces behind this. and and you just suddenly see some incredible red flags in terms of how they feel. it's appropriate to address at work. and of course, as nick says here, damian , this seems says here, damian, this seems more like a fetish thing. this is more like transvestites. and the offensiveness is that this is this person's idea of w