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Jeremy Heywood

June 2024

  • David Cameron pointing up at something while talking to Queen Elizabeth II

    A constitutional ‘pickle’: how Cameron’s election victory split Buckingham Palace and No 10

    The situation posed an awkward point of protocol for mandarins… and their solution would have made Sir Humphrey proud

December 2023

  • John and Norma Major

    Norma Major ‘discreetly’ moved her clothes out of Downing Street in anticipation of a Labour victory

    Declassified files from John Major’s private secretary reveal the extraordinary level of planning that goes into a handover of power

December 2022

  • Order of the British Empire medal

    The honours system is difficult to get right

  • Civil Service Awards - Buckingham Palace<br>Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh meet Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service, during the annual Civil Service Awards Reception at Buckingham Palace.

    Honours committees ‘pressured by No 10 to reward Tory donors’

January 2022

  • Jeremy Heywood graphic illustration. Original photograph Leon Neal / Getty Images. Letter courtesy of Suzanne Heywood. Design by Observer Design

    Suzanne Heywood: ‘Jeremy gave his life to public service. He should not take the blame for the lobbying scandal’

  • Lady Suzanne Heywood

    My Jeremy was made scapegoat for Greensill affair, says Lady Heywood

July 2021

  • Jeremy and Suzanne Heywood

    Gordon Brown decries Greensill inquiry as unsatisfactory

    Former PM’s criticism comes after Jeremy Heywood’s widow says review scapegoated her husband
  • David Cameron, left, and Lex Greensill in Saudi Arabia in January 2020

    Boris Johnson accused of orchestrating Greensill ‘cover-up’

    Labour say terms of Nigel Boardman’s inquiry limited to avoid a wider investigation of lobbying
    • Greensill could yet cause problems for Boris Johnson

    • Greensill inquiry acting ‘contrary to natural justice’, says PM’s ex-adviser

    • Jeremy Heywood’s widow questions Greensill inquiry chief’s independence

June 2021

  • Jeremy Heywood

    Ex-civil service chief used his power to open doors for Greensill, inquiry hears

    Allegations made to MPs about the late Jeremy Heywood and how he helped financier avoid scrutiny

April 2021

  • Andy Beckett

    How did the UK’s most powerful civil servant fall for Lex Greensill?

    Andy Beckett
  • The then British prime minister, David Cameron, outside 10 Downing Street in February 2016.

    Greensill inquiry is attempt to deflect blame from ministers – Whitehall union

February 2021

  • Cabinet secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood in discussion with then prime minister David Cameron, Downing Street, 2013.

    Remembering Jeremy Heywood, the civil servant who ran Britain

    In Suzanne Heywood’s memoir, What Does Jeremy Think?, she reveals the inner workings of Whitehall – and its ‘greatest servant’, her husband

November 2018

  • Jeremy John Heywood, permanent Secretary to the Cabinet on the main stairs of No.10 Downing Street

    Lord Heywood of Whitehall obituary

  • Jeremy Heywood

    Former civil service chief Jeremy Heywood dies aged 56

October 2018

  • Cabinet secretary Jeremy Heywood, who says he ‘still has all that desire to serve my country’.

    Jeremy Heywood: a look back at the cabinet secretary's illustrious career

  • Sir Jeremy Heywood

    Jeremy Heywood steps down as UK's most senior civil servant

October 2017

  • Jeremy Heywood

    Cabinet secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood treated for cancer

    Whitehall’s most senior civil servant was diagnosed in June and treatment has gone well, says Cabinet Office
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