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The Importance of Resilience in the Civil Service

There are now suggestions that a few other ministers may fall foul of these sort of accusations. People say, well, this hasn't happened before - partly because of the very secretive kind of relationship between ministers and civil servants. It was always just the case that if there was a particular problem with a particularly problematic minister, it would be the civil servants who got moved. And that, I think, is just changing subtly, which, quite frankly, isn't a bad thing. Yeah. If I'm reading a note from Chris Smith here who says, as a mid-level civil servant, I wish I could claim all his power that I supposedly have. As for resilience, if I shout out

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