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Preparing for Power – Episode 2: The civil service

Preparing for Power – Episode 2: The civil service

Update: 2024-06-28

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Episode 2 explores how the civil service prepares for a potential transition of government, with five former permanent secretaries revealing how they readied themselves and their departments for a potential change in their political bosses.

How does Whitehall prepare for a change in the party in power? What can civil servants do to get ready for a hung parliament? And how do they continue to serve the current government while these preparations are going on?

In this episode of Preparing for Power, we speak to former senior civil servants to discover how they prepared for that all important election result and its aftermath, hear their secrets, and work out the lessons for 2024.

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Preparing for Power – Episode 2: The civil service

Preparing for Power – Episode 2: The civil service

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