Comment
The decline in public trust in government
That's the big issue and not just in the UK. It isn't a convincing argument that in order to tackle the relationship between government and citizen we should focus on the relationship between ministers and civil servants. It's a perennial preoccupation of those in the Whitehall village.
For example, the recent one year on report on the civil service reform plan proposes to:
- give ministers the power to extend their ministerial office by making personal appointments of additional special advisers and other external appointees
- having already increased ministerial involvement in the permanent secretary appointment, move to a fixed tenure appointment for permanent secretaries for all new appointments with immediate effect.
- Topic
- Brexit
- Keywords
- Civil service reform