Politics & Constitution

Appointment is the second new Cabinet minister in a week

Package will increase spending in areas including infrastructure and broadband as well as health funding

Gavin Barwell, Theresa May's new chief of staff, identified austerity and Brexit as key factors behind the Conservatives' general election losses

Conservative manifesto set to be ‘pruned’ due to minority government, say ministers 

Funding for Irish farmers and a softer approach to Brexit are understood to be among the DUP’s requests in return for supporting the minority Conservative government, as other leaders raise concerns about content of a Conservative-DUP deal

Further appointments expected through weekend and next week

Former civil service head predicts polls drubbing will take “austerity” off the political agenda

Ten ministers lose seats as Conservatives forced to form minority government

Academics at education think-tank say party’s ‘£60m’ pledge may cost between £200m and £400m

Liberal Democrats join Labour in pledging to scrap 1% limit on wage increases

Theresa May writes to the Home Affairs Committee chair over Border Force budget, after MPs order second permanent secretary Olly Robbins to face a second evidence session

Home Affairs select committee demands department’s second permanent secretary returns to answer Border Force budget questions

Home Affairs Committee chair Keith Vaz repeatedly questions Robbins on Border Force funding

Former head of the civil service speaks out against plans to toughen union laws in latest high-profile intervention

Former head of the civil service asked by Labour to "review the operation of the Treasury itself" – as shadow chancellor John McDonnell signals major shift in the opposition's economic policy

Opposition's deputy leader named as new shadow minister for the Cabinet Office

Civil service chief executive John Manzoni points to end of the "Francis Maude era" in his first speech to the FDA union

David Cameron to return to Downing Street as party defies predictions of a hung parliament

In the second of CSW's in-depth assessments of the party manifestos, Mark Rowe picks apart the Tory document to find out what the party has in store for the civil service

A glance at the new pledges contained in today's Conservative manifesto, as party praises the "impartial, professional and highly capable civil service"

PASC chair Bernard Jenkin is highly critical of aspects of the civil service – but he’s sympathetic to civil servants themselves, and earlier this month an audience of officials gave his arguments a warm reception. Matt Ross reports.