By James Chapman It’s in everyone’s interest to have the best talent in the civil service. That’s why we should pay the top brass more, writes James Chapman Why we should pay top civil servants moreThe mess Keir Starmer and some of his ministerial colleagues got themselves into over gifts from donors may have been entirely predictable, as those of us who have been calling for state funding of political parties to replace donations from multi-millionaires as part of measures to clean up politics could have told him. But it has also thrown a spotlight on levels of remuneration at the top of the …