Another day, another select committee on the Mandelson scandal. Witness in the box this time was Catherine 'Cat' Little, 'chief operating officer' of the Civil Service.
Somewhere inside the imposing skyscraper on Kolpachny St in Moscow, the home of the Russian foreign intelligence service, sits a file with name: 'Peter Mandelson.'
The Conservative leader said her party has 'identified billions of pounds of savings from things like bringing down the welfare bill and reducing the size of the Civil Service'.
A Nigel Farage government would change the civil service code to ban Left-wing activism that has led to a ' woke agenda that has infected so much of Whitehall', Reform vowed today.
Under new Civil Service guidance on 'pay control', only earnings above £174,000 - and bonuses over £25,000 - must be signed off, a hike from £150,000 and £17,500 respectively.