Starmer Has Appointed ‘Queen of Woke’ As UK’s Top Civil Servant

Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer has been accused of appointing the “Queen of Woke” as his new cabinet secretary.

51-year-old Dame Antonia Romeo, who has been dubbed Whitehall’s ‘Queen of Woke’ by some, was this week named the new Cabinet Secretary and head of the civil service.

Reform UK party spokesperson Zia Yusuf has argued that Romeo’s elevation to the UK’s most senior civil servant position is the “embodiment of all that’s wrong” with the current establishment.

Former employees have reportedly accused Romeo of focusing more on queer representation than on government work.

RT reports: While heading the Department for International Trade (DIT), “she bombarded staff with weekly emails pushing Transgender Awareness Week, Bi Visibility Day, and even recommended watching films about trans parenthood,” he claimed. During her time working in the Home Office, “65,000 illegal migrants have crossed on her watch,” he said.

During her stint at the DIT, Romeo set out plans for civil servants to spend around 20% of their working hours on diversity objectives such as encouraging workers to display their preferred pronouns and “recruiting non-binary staff,” the Telegraph reported on Friday, citing internal documents. She also reportedly instructed staff to join a “gender non-conforming book club” as part of their corporate performance review.

Starmer has argued that Romeo is the “right person” for government to deliver a “period of national renewal.”