A call for civil servants who refuse to return to their desks in Whitehall to have their pay cut has been rejected by a Cabinet minister. Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said he would like to see officials in his department going into the office two or three days a week. However, during a round of broadcast interviews he acknowledged that flexible working—with staff working at least some of their time from home—was “here to stay.” His comments came after one unnamed Cabinet minister told the Daily Mail that officials who would not return to the office should have their pay docked. The minister argued that those staff who continued to work from home were receiving a “de facto pay rise” as they did not have any commuting costs, which was “unfair” to those going into the office. However, Kwarteng strongly rejected the claim, saying that officials who were home-working were …