Case served as the most senior government official under four prime ministers – Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir – in quick succession, during a period of uncertainty and upheaval at the top of UK politics.<\/p>\n
He stepped down in December 2024 on health grounds and was made a peer the following year.<\/p>\n
The cabinet secretary role involves advising the prime minister, implementing government policy, and managing other top civil servants.<\/p>\n
Case told the BBC that the uncertainty surrounding the prime minister’s future was a “big challenge and a big problem for government”, adding that the markets were already responding to the possibility of a leadership challenge in the UK.<\/p>\n
“The amount of money we are paying for the enormous level of debt that the country has are going up with every moment of uncertainty,” he said.<\/p>\n
Case said that “while politicians are having conversations amongst themselves about who should be leader”, time was lost to fix “issues of real significance to people up and down the country in the health service and education”.<\/p>\n
Changes in leadership also mean important decisions are deferred, Case said, pointing to the recent resignation of Defence Secretary John Healey.<\/p>\n
“Current decisions aren’t being taken that are desperately needed on how much money we should be spending on defence,” Case said.<\/p>\n
Asked what his advice to Burnham would be if he were to become leader, Case said: “Do as much preparation as you possibly can, surround yourself with the best people and, by God, do your homework.” <\/p>\n
He added that Burnham would not resolve the big challenges facing the UK by “coming in and thinking you can govern simply by being a better communicator or somehow vibe coding”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Case served as the most senior government official under four prime ministers – Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-650119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}