A new woman... By Simon Sweetman

“What dreadful timing ! They've b*ggered a perfectly good article!”

There you are. I had just written a terribly witty piece based on the rumour I had heard that the new chief executive of HMRC would be a woman and just before it could hit the site they went and made the announcement and it wasn’t Moira Stuart at all.

Mike Clasper (remember him ? he’s the non-executive chair) had this to say

“Lesley Strathie is currently chief executive of Jobcentre Plus and will take up her new post with HMRC in early November.