November 12 2013: How the USA used Sir Jeremy Heywood and Sir John Scarlett to bring an EU drone strike capability on anyone in the UK US influence in Europe and the UK has the aim of constructing a Federal model as in the US and USSR. In this model Parliament is a weakened part […]

October 11 2011: Peter Oborne, Daily Telegraph chief political commentator. No, Mr Cameron, Jeremy Heywood is not the man to lead the Civil Service In 1999 the Blairites needed allies inside the system, and fortunately there was one to hand. They were always hostile to outsiders, and at first the prime minister’s private secretary, the […]

November 30 2013: Jeremy Heywood leads a fresh offensive against Maude – so, what chance civil service reform? With all that’s been happening this week, from policy flip-flops to floppy mustaches, you may not have noticed that war has broken out. So I’ll give you a rapid-fire briefing. The arena is Whitehall. The aggressors are […]

Career Path of Sir Jeremy John Heywood Sir Jeremy John Heywood, KCB, CVO (born 31 December 1961) is a senior British civil servant who has been the Cabinet Secretary since 1 January 2012, and Head of the Home Civil Service since September 2014. He previously served twice as the Principal Private Secretary to the Prime […]

January 14 2014: How Chilcot could ‘slap the cuffs’ on Tony Blair Lord Mandelson recently described Chilcot as, “what could be a very difficult minefield” for the Labour Party. Blair allies have been briefing friendly journalists that he is, “deeply concerned” about the report, though this may be expectation management to make the actual criticism […]