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The chief civil servant at the Department for Education has been sacked following the row over A-level and GCSE results in England. Jonathan Slater was due to stand down next year, but will now leave the department by next week.

Boris Johnson said 鈥渢here is a need for fresh official leadership鈥�, but the civil service union said there is now a fear civil servants will be thrown under the bus to shield ministers from accountability.

The news comes a day after the head of exam regulator Ofqual, Sally Collier, also resigned from her role. The Education Secretary Gavin Williamson remains in post.

How will Jonathan Slater's sacking affect the relationship between the civil service and the government?

And who is accountable when things go wrong in government, the minister or the official?

Policy Editor Lewis Goodall reports and Katie Razzall is joined Dave Penman, General Secretary of the FDA union, the union for the civil service.