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New Caledonia votes to reject independence from France | World News

[ad_1] New Caledonia has rejected an independence referendum that would have led it to cut ties with France. The southwestern Pacific archipelago voted whether it wanted independence from France after a three-decade decolonization effort. The “no” field won 53.26% of the vote, after provisional results previously showed that it was …

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Broken civil service ‘full of urban metropolitan thinkers’

[ad_1] Cummings, Johnson’s senior adviser, has previously complained that “almost no one gets fired” at Whitehall, and conservatives are reviewing human resource structures within the service, including the hiring, training and firing of staff. Johnson fired the starting gun for a Whitehall reform program in June when he merged the …

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