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    Top 10 member of the Buffoon list IDS tries to blame others for his cock-up.....exposed......

    Top mandarin hits back at Iain Duncan Smith over universal credit smears

    Sir Jeremy personally intervenes to stop Work and Pensions Secretary blaming Robert Devereux for universal credit programme debacle

    Britain's most senior civil servant intervened with David Cameron to help save the career of a permanent secretary who felt he was being "hounded out" of office by his political masters, The Independent has learnt.

    Sir Jeremy Heywood told the Prime Minister that, as the de facto head of the civil service, he was concerned about the "concerted political briefing campaign" against Robert Devereux over failures in the Government's universal credit programme.

    He is understood to have made clear that he did not believe Mr Devereux should be singled out for blame for the project and that responsibility also lay with Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary. He is also said to have pointed out that the public undermining a permanent secretary was harming civil service morale and was unfair because, as a government official, Mr Devereux was unable to defend himself.

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