The UK’s top civil servant has vowed to fix “tame and risk-averse” and “reactive, not strategic” behaviours in the civil service. Dame Antonia Romeo delivered the cabinet secretary’s annual lecture at the London School of Economics on Tuesday evening with prime minister Andy Burnham and first secretary of state Louise Haigh in the audience.  Romeo, … Continue reading Whitehall is too ‘tame, risk-averse and reactive’, top civil servant suggests