The head of the UK’s Government Legal Department is pushing for more of a “revolving door” with industry, as US law firms in London spur large salary increases, putting extra pressure on public sector hiring. Pay “is a real challenge”, said Treasury solicitor Susanna McGibbon in an interview with the Financial Times. “I am all in favour of the so-called revolving door . . . it is very different work that the American firms are paying those huge amounts for.
The new government has made clear that it wants to reset the UK’s reputation on the rule of law after the Conservatives challenged international law and undermined the courts over issues including Brexit and deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda. In an interview with the FT last month, England’s attorney-general, Lord Richard Hermer KC, said he was “shocked” by decisions taken under the previous government.