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PAUL GRAY, the chief civil servant at the centre of the missing child benefit computer discs, was widely praised for 'doing the honourable thing' by resigning his top post at HM Revenue and Customs.
This 'selfless act' helped to save Chancellor Alistair Darling, already under pressure to resign following the Northern Rock banking fiasco.
However, it appears that Mr Gray has been quickly rewarded for acting 'honourably' to take the flak for Labour ministers. Gray has been given a plum £200,000 a year post working for the Cabinet office. His employment brief is a project helping to 'develop civil servants' skills'!
In this issue
 System change not climate change
Feature: The free market brings fire, flood and famine
For decent public transport!
Workplace news and analysis
DWP strike: Fighting low pay
Socialists and the trade union leaderships
What we think
Labour's funding scandal
How New Labour got hooked
Grayscale
Education
No to academy schools!
Compulsory school to 18 - a rosy future for young people?
Child poverty rises
Rail fares unfair
International socialist news and analysis
Chavez referendum result a big setback
Annapolis - a framework for further conflict
Intelligence on Iran wrong
Disunited Russia
Italy: transport strike
Kosova: After the elections - before the explosion
Northern Ireland classroom assistants
Argos strike in southern Ireland
South African miners strike over safety
Socialist Party review
The socialist review: 'Taking Liberties'
Post Office and CWU
Keep the 'people's Post Office' public
CWU ballot result
Workplace news
Unison's right wing still witch-hunting
Save Cadbury jobs!
Manchester's striking mental health workers: Defending trade union rights
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