Advice Officials and Police Investigation

leak: A police investigation is under way into the original leak, and last night further cables from Darroch were published, according to The Guardian. There are concerns that the leak was designed to have a chilling effect on the frank advice officials are willing to give ministers. They say that Sir Kim Darroch's resignation last week was the latest episode in a wider culture of abusing civil servants which has been allowed to develop over the last few years . Darroch quit his post after confidential emails, in which he described Donald Trump's administration as clumsy and inept were leaked to a Sunday newspaper. In a letter to the Observer, the heads of the Prospect and FDA unions, which between them represent tens of thousands of Britain's civil servants, said Darroch's removal followed briefings against officials and sustained attacks . No group has done more to keep the country running than the civil service, the general secretaries write. In recent months we have seen a malicious briefing campaign against individual civil servants involved in Brexit negotiations, attacks on Treasury officials when their forecasts warn of the dangers of no deal and the disgraceful attempt to blame civil servants for the national security leak involving Huawei. As a reward for this, civil servants have been subjected to sustained attacks from across the political spectrum. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.