The Independent has a remarkable story today which shows just how public money gets wasted. The paper reports that the
Department for Energy and Climate Change has employed a firm of headhunters to find it a new chief economist. Tom Peck writes that the headhunters then approached Vicky Pryce about the job. Ms
Pryce had until recently worked at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills but had quit when her then husband Chris Huhne became a Cabinet minister to avoid any appearance of impropriety.
What is so revealing about this story is that it suggests that before calling Ms Pryce, the headhunters had seemingly not done the preparatory work to find out why she had left the civil service only a few months ago. This hardly inspires confidence about the way the process is being handled.
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