Boris Johnson's dodgy use of statistics is a constitutional crisis for Whitehall | David Walker

What’s the point in trying to make the civil service more professional if ministers scorn accuracy and mock the official arbiter of good governance?The Boris Johnson affair – especially his dismissive rejection of the UK Statistics Authority – provokes a constitutional crisis. Not constitutional in the formal sense of the workings of parliament and the Crown, but in the spirit and procedures of Whitehall.Related: Boris Johnson left isolated as row grows over £350m post-Br