Boris Johnson has picked the prominent Brexit campaigner Gisela Stuart for a senior role in charge of regulating appointments to the civil service.
Lady Stuart will become the new first civil servant commissioner, leading a team of commissioners who will scrutinise selections for top jobs in Whitehall.
Her own appointment will come under close scrutiny given that the crossbench peer – who is a former Labour MP – urged people to vote for Johnson in 2019 to deliver Brexit.
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