Labour ministers spent millions on pet projects before election AGAINST advice of senior civil servants

Daily Mail
"Labour ministers rammed through hundreds of millions of pounds of spending on pet projects before the election against the explicit advice of senior civil servants.Senior mandarins throughout Whitehall resorted to the ‘nuclear option’ – writing to demand written orders from ministers because they disapproved of the decisions, it emerged this evening.Liberal Democrat David Laws, the new Chief Secretary to the Treasury, revealed that he is now conducting an audit of every spending decision signed off since the start of the year in order to uncover the way Labour wasted public money.He expressed grave concern about decisions made by departing Labour ministers which were ruled to breach guidelines on ‘propriety’ and ‘value for money’.Permanent Secretaries complained on 16 different occasions at the way ministers set out to spend millions without the appropriate safeguards during the last five years."