{"id":78848,"date":"2026-02-19T15:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/starmer-appoints-antonia-romeo-as-head-of-the-civil-service\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T15:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:00:19","slug":"starmer-appoints-antonia-romeo-as-head-of-the-civil-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/starmer-appoints-antonia-romeo-as-head-of-the-civil-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer appoints Antonia Romeo as head of the civil service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/69c8a12ed8f9eb4878261a1bb67e9dd9ebd65f01\/472_6_2544_2035\/master\/2544.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=6ce81a128d2b80b4b166a7a9a3b6e9d6\" alt=\"Starmer appoints Antonia Romeo as head of the civil service\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">Politics<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Starmer appoints Antonia Romeo as head of the civil service<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">PM \u2018delighted\u2019 to fill position with \u2018outstanding public servant\u2019 \u2013 who becomes first woman to hold cabinet secretary roleUK politics liveKeir Starmer has appointed Antonia Romeo as cabinet secretary, the UK\u2019s most senior civil servant.Romeo, the first woman to hold the post in the role\u2019s 110-year history, has been a key figure behind the scenes in multiple government departments including spells as permanent secretary at the Home Office, International Trade and the Ministry of Justice. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/feb\/19\/starmer-appoints-dame-antonia-romeo-as-cabinet-secretary-and-civil-service-head\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics Starmer appoints Antonia Romeo as head of the civil service PM \u2018delighted\u2019 to fill position with \u2018outstanding public servant\u2019 \u2013 who becomes first woman to hold cabinet secretary roleUK politics liveKeir Starmer has appointed Antonia Romeo as cabinet secretary, the UK\u2019s most senior civil servant.Romeo, the first woman to hold the post in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":78849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}