Ex-Foreign Office chief Olly Robbins seeking judicial review over his sacking – UK politics live

Robbins is suing the government over Keir Starmer’s decision to sack him as permanent secretary at the Foreign OfficeBack to Andy Burnham, and Dan Bloom has a good long read at Politico about Burnham’s plans to impose devolution on the civil service. Bloom says there is talk of a “Bank of England” moment.It will be hard to wrestle a head-turning policy announcement from structural reforms to the state, though his allies are discussing a potential big bang early on.One ally of Burnham recalled Gordon Brown’s announcement that the Bank of England would be made independent, four days after he became