Tensions have always existed between ministers and mandarins, but mistrust following the Brexit vote and multiple reshuffles have poisoned relations What’s going on? Can things ever get better? asks youngvulgarian
, “most ministers do not know anything, or not very much, about the portfolio they’re handed and on day one they’re expected to operate with it. And I think it’s one of the great challenges of our system”.
One solution could be for parliament to provide voluntary training for MPs hoping to one day reach ministerial office. Another would be for the government to remember why the role of special advisers was created in the first place. “There’s a difficulty for special advisers who go in who are quite young and have never managed anything before, because they don’t really understand the principles of management, and nobody helps you understand that.”
“These tensions have always existed”, Thomas explained. “In the early Blair years, the Treasury didn’t adapt very well to Gordon Brown coming in as chancellor and to a new way of doing things in No 10. That created tensions.”
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