The Welsh government has banned its civil servants from using words such as Brexit, telling them they should use “transition period to refer to the time between February 1 and December 31, 2020”.
Staff must also say “non-disabled” rather than “able-bodied”.
The devolved government’s website updates a style guide first published in 2019 and revised on December 20 to lay down rules about which words and phrases officials should use. Civil servants are told not to refer to Her Majesty’s government. The guide reads: “UK government. Never HM government.”
One civil servant said: “Some of these rules are ridiculous. They are just words and phrases used every day by ordinary people. It is a massive A-Z but the only one missing is W for woke.