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Readout from Cummings& #39; SpAd Zoom 1) He said that the stories about No 10 wanting to create a hub and spoke system are "more media inventions"
Readout from Cummings& #39; SpAd Zoom 2) Claimed the goal is to make the centre smaller, empower departments and change civil service fundamentals to improve performance.
Readout from Cummings& #39; SpAd Zoom 3) "Anybody who has read what I& #39;ve said about management over the years will know it& #39;s ludicrous to suggest the solution to Whitehall& #39;s problems is a bigger centre and more centralisation..."
Readout from Cummings& #39; SpAd Zoom 4) "...it& #39;s already far too big, incoherent and adds to the problems with departments".
Readout from Cummings& #39; SpAd Zoom 5) Signalled big changes coming to how No 10 & the Cabinet Office work - "a smaller, more focused and more elite centre" is needed.
Readout from Cummings& #39; SpAd Zoom 6) Also said that Covid has exposed fundamental problems in the Whitehall machine and that many officials now accepted the need for radical changes.
Cummings SpAd Zoom postscript: on the future of the Cabinet Office, see also from May on @ConHome how it will take part of the rap for Covid failures - https://bit.ly/2No1fbC ">https://bit.ly/2No1fbC&q...
