Why the Government doesn’t understand the role of the GIS

On 8 August, I told you that a Government communications crisis was in the making. It has now arrived with the firing of the fifth head of a departmental information division. Steve Reardon (Social Security) has, it is said, lost the confidence of his Cabinet Minister, Harriet Harman. Mr Reardon, who joined my press office at the Department of Employment in 1972, should take that as a compliment.