Is There Too Much of That in Whitehall?

When Charles was working in number ten, how did he find that the structure work? What were your frustrations about obviously, the prime minister sort of doesn't really have a department, as it were. He doesn't have that big heft of civil servants working on policy for him. It is a meanol smitas prime minister, you're paid to make judgment calls every day. And whitehall an the machine only works if youare constantly making those decisions and getting the machine to move at breaknec speed. Germany found e number ten machine, very good. You get the rolls roice of the civil service. A but generally very positive.