Department for Education’s top mandarin in the wake of the A-level exam grading fiasco. Permanent secretary Jonathan Slater became the latest in a long line of civil servants to be ousted since Mr Johnson was re-elected in December, with his top
Boris Johnson was last night accused of “throwing civil service leaders under a bus” to protect himself and his ministers after he sacked the
adviser Dominic Cummings intent on a fundamental shake-up of Whitehall. Labour said parents would view with dismay the “complete chaos” at the heart of education just days before children in England return to school after five months of absence.