"The elected government needs to be in control of the country, not the civil service"

Telegraph: 9th April 2026: Reform MP and Reform UK's Head of Department for Preparing for Government explains

"On Wednesday, quietly, the Labour Government issued its final and unconditional surrender to the Whitehall machine... [Keir Starmer]empowered his new Cabinet Secretary with the authority to design and deliver the legacy of his time in office...

...The five powers Dame Antonia has granted herself are (I paraphrase): to lead delivery of government policy; to be the Prime Minister’s principal policy adviser; to manage the Cabinet; to reform the Civil Service; and to lead the Civil Service. She is therefore in charge of execution, policy, decision-making, and the machinery of the British state. This includes direct responsibility for all “economic, domestic, international and national security” matters...

Dame Antonia’s document... openly demonstrates the trend of British politics in this century, by which power has drained away from elected ministers and towards officials in quangos, government departments and – most of all – the Cabinet Office...

...If there is one mission for a Reform government it is this: to put the elected government, accountable to Parliament, back in charge. That is why we are committed to leaving the European Convention on Human Rights,..It is why we will scrap the Climate Change Act, allowing ministers – not quangos – to make the rules on energy and the environment. And it is why we will reform government itself, to give elected politicians, led by the Prime Minister, the power and the responsibility to govern..."

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