Case has also drawn scrutiny for his knowledge of Johnson’s personal finan- cial relationship with the chair of the BBC and for the government’s response to bullying allegations against Dominic Raab, the justice secretary. One senior official said: “Simon didn’t stand up for his own people over partyg- ate,” adding that junior staff were issued with fines for attending events happen- ing on his watch. Among Case’s fellow officials, there is particular concern about his handling of “partygate”, which centred on rule- breaking in Downing Street and White- hall during Covid restrictions in 20. ” While friends of the cabinet secretary say that he has continued to receive sup- port from his colleagues, he is also said to be “fed up”. “I can’t see how Simon Case survives this,” one senior Tory backbencher told the Financial Times, “especially if there are more messages of his directly slag- ging off othe r m inist ers. When designing a communications strategy, Case said that then-prime min- ister Boris Johnson, who had poor per- sonal polling, was “nationally dis- trusted”. In the messages, Case describes some opposition to Covid-19 restrictions as “pure Conservative ideology”. Case has come under pressure from Conservative MPs this week regarding WhatsApp messages that appeared in The Telegraph as a part of a trove of leaked material. Simon Case, cabinet secretary, has told friends that he is “genuinely undecided” between trying to guide the civil service through a general election next year and resigning this year to give his successor a chance to bed in before the possible for- mation of a new government.
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