It follows complaints that the organization’s stringent admission standards prevented him from joining.
“I have to say, my position on this one is clear: if you believe profoundly in reform of an institution, it is easier to do if you join it and make the change from within rather than chuck rocks from the outside.” Mr. Case responded when asked about his membership on Tuesday.
Former civil servant Jill Rutter, who is currently based in the UK at a thinktank called Changing Europe, took issue with Mr. Case’s prior defense of his membership.
“Simon Case portrays himself as a fifth columnist Garrick who is in charge of a militant army of public servants who have recently joined to alter the rules to allow women to enter,” the woman stated.
“[I] am wondering how impressed his female colleagues are by this noble sacrifice.”
Liam Byrne, a Labour politician, commented on “I’m afraid any good the cabinet secretary may have sought ‘reforming the Garrick from the inside’ is well outweighed by the bad of our Civil Service chief indulging in membership of an elite all-male club.”
