Simon Case has been accused of allowing Rishi Sunak to use Downing Street as “PR for the Conservative Party” over a net-zero announcement branded with the Tory conference slogan.
The cabinet secretary has been warned by Labour that he risks the impartiality of the civil service after the prime minister unveiled a series of changes to climate policy while standing behind his party’s conference strapline.
Sunak used a lectern that said “long-term decisions for a brighter future”, the slogan the Conservatives will use for their party conference in Manchester in just over a week’s time.
The ministerial code says that ministers “must not use government resources for party political purposes” and bars them from using official facilities “for the dissemination of material which is essentially
