Flashback – Revealed: The day Britain’s top civil servant rolled naked on the floor ranting about the end of the world

‘Britain’s top civil servant ‘cracked up’ and lay on a floor at 10 Downing Street talking incoherently in the final days of Ted Heath’s Conservative Government.
According to a new book about No10, Sir William Armstrong, Heath’s Permanent Secretary of the Civil Service Department and his most senior mandarin, was taken to hospital after telling colleagues the world was coming to an end.
Last night, Whitehall insiders revealed Armstrong had, in fact, been naked while lying on the floor at No10, and that after hospital treatment he was sent by the then Lord Rothschild – a fellow senior civil servant – to recover at Lord Rothschild’s villa in Barbados for a month.’
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