Although the outcome of the next election is too uncertain for pollsters to call, whoever forms the next Government will have strong recent experience of the Whitehall machine and how it works.
Unlike 1997 or 2010, freshly appointed ministers will not be smooth-talked by mandarins into the ways of Whitehall or be naïve enough to believe all problems are political and merely awaiting the new regime’s policy cure.
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