Bootham old boy new cabinet secretary
Jeremy John Heywood, a former Bootham student, is set to become cabinet secretary
Jeremy John Heywood, due to take over the post of cabinet secretary when Gus O’Donnell retires at the end of the year, was educated at Bootham School in York. He was head boy at the school, which has a Quaker background and ethos.
In January 2008, Jeremy became the first permanent secretary at Number 10, a role which he retained after David Cameron became prime minister in May 2010. A keen windsurfer and golfer, clearly Jeremy knows which way the wind is blowing.
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The Friend has provided a very cryptic report on Bootham (£8,260 per term )old boy Jeremy John Heywood. I wonder if this former Bootham boy has deployed his Quaker education in the service of us all? or just himself and his powerful political and banking friends? Readers can judge for themselves how Bootham Quaker values play out in reality….... One of Tony Blair’s most trusted aides, Jeremy Heywood was a leading figure at investment bank Morgan Stanley, which advised on the sale of the troubled firm in 2006. He is now David Cameron’s Permanent Secretary at Downing Street and is tipped to be the next Cabinet Secretary. His No 10 role puts him at the nerve-centre of a Government that may end up using taxpayers’ money to bail out the residential care group, Southern Cross. It is not clear how much of a personal bonus Mr Heywood was paid for overseeing the Southern Cross float in 2006. However banking sources said it is certain that he will have been handsomely rewarded for running the team which won it. The floatation has been heavily criticised because it left the company financially vulnerable and unable to withstand the property crash of 2008. Some 31,000 frail elderly people in 750 care homes face an uncertain future now Southern Cross is hovering on the brink of bankruptcy. Although Mr Heywood did not work directly on the Southern Cross deal, he was the ultimate boss of the team which ran the float. He may have indirectly benefited from the fees paid for the deal that year. Mr Heywood was one of Prime Minister Tony Blair’s key aides, working for him for four years as Principal Private Secretary from 1999 to 2003. He was brought back to Government by Gordon Brown in 2007 and was retained by Mr Cameron, where he is now his most trusted mandarin. Justin Bowden, a national officer at the GMB, said: ‘Jeremy Heywood is in this up to his neck. ‘We now know that David Cameron has someone by him who was ring-side during the disastrous financial engineering of Southern Cross at the hands of private equity and big business. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1395038/Southern-Cross-Blairs-aide-Jeremy-Heywood-dragged-scandal.html#ixzz1jef3MVNG He was also upto his neck in the events that lead upto the death of Dr. Kelly. “Ordinary procedures, such as minute taking, appear to have partly ceased. This became embarrassingly apparent when the Hutton inquiry into the death of Dr David Kelly sought to reconstruct the process which had led to the Ministry of Defence scientist’s name appearing in a national newspaper. Lord Hutton heard how some four meetings, each involving senior officials and cabinet ministers, had taken place in the 48 hours before Dr Kelly’s name was released. In an extraordinary breach of traditional Whitehall procedure, it emerged that not one of these meetings was minuted. This was Heywood’s job, and it was not carried out. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peteroborne/100110964/no-prime-minister-this-is-not-the-man-to-lead-the-civil-service/”
By miriam on 16th January 2012 - 21:28
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