
Talking Politics Guide to ... Being a Civil Servant
TALKING POLITICS
The Importance of Civil Service Views
There is a civil service view as well as these people being servants. They have always had a strong view about particular policies, which they would communicate in the back room to ministers. The idea that there is an iron boundary line, if you like, between administration and policy and indeed politics,. I think it's a convenient constitutional myth that enables this system of government to work.
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