ANDREW PIERCE: Was would-be beach bum Sir Mark Sedwill washed away by ‘hard rain’ in Whitehall?
Over a private lunch in his Downing Street flat three weeks ago, Boris Johnson persuaded the Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill that it was time to stand down. It was an amicable conversation as Sedwill had been thinking for a while it was time to move on. The burden of the job had become too … Read more