WHO

needs bonuses? Cabinet minister James Brokenshire is trying to encourage his civil servants by giving them fizzy drinks.

If mandarins in his housing ministry carry out what he considers exceptional work, they’re given a ‘Brokey Cokey’ award. It consists of a can of Coca-Cola and a certificate. So jealous are Home Office officials of the Brokenshire largesse that Immigration Minister Caroline Nokes has instituted her own ‘Nokey Cokeys’ copycat scheme.

And there I was thinking the Government wanted us to drink less fizzy pop.