The appointment of Simon Case as Cabinet Secretary is a triumph for the Court Party that Prince Charles has spent decades creating and consolidating, ably assisted in recent years by Prince William.
That is now firmly established as an alternative centre of power and patronage in London. For example, it has become quite impossible to imagine the approval of any significant planning application to which Prince Charles had taken strong enough exception.
Fair play to Prince William, who is considerably older than Stormzy, for being Stormzy's gym buddy, thus linking his court to Jeremy Corbyn's. But as times have changed, so the tactic has shifted to the installation of his Private Secretary as Downing Street Permanent Secretary with a view to bumping him as quickly as possible to Head of the Home Civil Service. And that has now been achieved.
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