article_snippet: Sir Jeremy Heywood was given a humiliating rebuke by MPs yesterday for clearing taxpayer-funded advisers to take part in political campaigning.
article_snippet: It is another blow to the reputation of the Cabinet Secretary – who is known as Sir Cover Up for trying to block the publication of letters related to the Iraq War.
article_snippet: Nick Timothy and Stephen Parkinson, two of the Home Secretary’s closest aides, refused an order from Tory HQ to take part in telephone canvassing during last year
article_snippet: Number Ten and Tory HQ disagreed – suspending both men from the list of candidates at the forthcoming General Election as a punishment.
article_snippet: But that interpretation has now been flatly rejected by the public administration committee.
article_snippet: At the time, the decision to remove the advisers from the candidates list was widely seen as the latest episode in a long-running feud between Downing Street and the Home Office.
article_snippet: Another of the Home Secretary’s advisers, Fiona Cunningham, was forced to quit last summer after clashing with Michael Gove over extremism in schools.
highlights_snippet: Sir Jeremy Heywood given humiliating rebuke by MPs in row over advisers .
  