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Labour leadership frontrunner says move by PM’s director of communications undermines civil service
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The head of the civil service must urgently investigate why Boris Johnson’s communications director banned certain journalists from a briefing on the EU with senior government officials, Keir Starmer, the Labour leadership frontrunner, has said.
Starmer warned that the decision to exclude some of the media from a briefing with David Frost, the government’s chief trade negotiator, had “undermined the civil service’s ability to comply with its core values of integrity, objectivity and impartiality”. Continue reading...