A formal announcement, and the search for a successor, is expected in the new year. The Cabinet Office declined to comment.
Robbins to return?
The Cabinet secretary holds a critical role within the U.K. establishment, making up one-third of the so-called golden triangle of British officials at the center of power — along with the principal private secretary to the prime minister, and the principal private secretary to the king.
Several names are being discussed as potential successors to Case.
They include Theresa May’s former Brexit negotiator, Olly Robbins, and Antonia Romeo, the Ministry of Justice permanent secretary. Other less well-known figures include Tamara Finkelstein, permanent secretary at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; and Jeremy Pocklington, the top official at the Department for Energy and Net Zero.
One powerful voice in the recruitment process will be Sue Gray, the former senior government official who left the civil service last year to become Starmer’s chief of staff — a top political role at the heart of his operation. She was said by colleagues to have been privately critical of senior officials including Case before she left the civil service.
Two people familiar with the matter said Gray and Olly Robbins have met and spoken in recent months.
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