Labour ministers’ frustration at what they see as a sclerotic civil service is finally boiling over.
Most people familiar with the machinery of government would accept that Labour’s Pat McFadden has a point when he says the civil service needs to change so that elected ministers – of whatever party – can do the things they were elected to do.
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