Placeman Policeman

Beastly civil servants are threatening the Government's levelling-up agenda. Downing Street has denied that the National Johnson intends handing the National Crime Agency in to his chum Lord Hogan-Howe of Midland; which is no doubt sufficient indication that the National Johnson intends doing exactly that. Nevertheless, the Civil Service Commission has invoked, of all things, due process and independent scrutiny, thus demonstrating the very same unpatriotic inflexibility which has prevented the country's media regulation being held to the standards of the Rothermere Daily Stürmer. The recruitment process has already had to be re-opened because unelected bureaucrats prevented Hogan-Howe's toddling onto the shortlist: an injustice that can only be compounded by denying the National Johnson's right, set forth in Magna Carta, to treat the NCA as though it were the Cabinet or the House of Lords.