Can the Civil Service survive Brexit?
To put it mildly, Nigel Farage didn’t hit it off with Sir Kim Darroch. When Our Man in Washington (for the time being) was Britain’s envoy to the EU, he came to see the then Ukip leader in his office and “compromised himself in a rather devastating way”, as Mr Farage described it in the Telegraph on Monday.Boris has a battle on his hands to reform it
“During our conversation, I said to him: ‘You’re a professional civil servant, aren’t you supposed to be neutral?’ He replied: ‘No. It’s our policy that the European Union is a good thing.’ I asked him to leave. I couldn’t see the point in even continuing to have the conversation.”
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