By Darwin Friend

Britain’s top civil servants are quietly lining up for pension pots worth an average of £1.4 million each – and while that headline will raise eyebrows, it isn’t the real scandal.

The real scandal is that these pensions aren’t backed by proper savings or investments. They sit inside an unfunded system that will simply push the bill onto future taxpayers.

New TaxPayers’ Alliance research into Whitehall’s “mandarin millionaires” reveals that 20 of the most senior civil servants now hold combined pension entitlements worth £27.8 million – an average of £1.39 million each. Fourteen have built up pensions worth more than £1 million; of these five are sitting on pots in excess of £2 million.

At the very top is Sir Matthew Rycroft, the former Permanent Secretary at the Home Office, whose........

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