Drivetime with Suella Braverman
Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government
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The Problem With Civil Service Leaks
I think over the last couple of years, we have seen a situation where senior management level civil servants have become too scared. I'm not going to endear me to people in the government right now on the political side, but I genuinely think it's massively overblown. What I think is happening is that a lot of civil servants at kind of a lower, medium level, feel that the safeguards to protect them are no longer there. So if you have a scenario where civil servants feel they have no other outlet, but for the media, and let's be honest, the media has proven an incredibly effective medium through which to get a result,. Then I think that's understandable that people would
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