Echoing Johnson, Gove also put a new, improbable ideological gloss to the revolution – the New Deal politics of FDR. Sir Mark, the shortest-lived cabinet secretary, also relinquished the national security adviser job. His replacement made the Brexit link explicit – Johnson appointee as chief Brexit negotiator, David Frost, a man with no security experience, as former PM Theresa May pointed out angrily. The purge of senior civil servants – or making their lives too uncomfortable to stay – will continue. The idea that the civil servive was always part of the europhile establishment and conspiring against the Brexit project has always been a leitmotif of their propaganda.

Source: The Irish Times July 02, 2020 19:08 UTC