PM's Senior Aide Dominic Cummings Calls For Civil Service Changes


The PM's senior adviser has called for changes to how government works, saying there are "profound problems" with how decisions are made.
In a blog post, Dominic Cummings said the civil service lacked people with "deep expertise in specific fields".
He said he wanted "weirdos and misfits with odd skills" to apply to work in Downing Street.
But a civil servants' union said the recruitment of experts had been hampered by "pay restraint".