How Liz led attack on woke civil service

A LEAKED document has revealed that Liz Truss urged Dominic Cummings to scrap hundreds of ‘woke’ civil service roles in an attack on Whitehall ‘groupthink’.

When she was international trade secretary in 2020, Miss Truss’s office called for diversity and inclusion jobs to be abolished – signing off the document to Mr Cummings, then Boris Johnson’s most senior adviser.

The document said: ‘The upper ranks of the civil service... lack political understanding and a tendency towards liberal groupthink results in significant delays in delivering ministerial priorities.’ She also lambasted the difficulty of firing poorly performing officials.

A source close to Miss Truss told the Telegraph that the document represents how she would seek to govern if she beats Rishi Sunak to become Tory leader.

‘As prime minister, Liz will not be captured by the Whitehall and Treasury orthodoxy,’ they said. ‘She’ll push ahead with tough reforms and get things through the labyrinthine Whitehall system. She’s absolutely the person who will get things done and challenge civil service groupthink.’