Not up to snuff
Sir: The country is indeed crying out for expertise, as James Ball and Andrew Greenway wrote last week (‘The rise of the bluffocracy’, 18 August). But the
main problem is with the civil service, not politicians.
The civil service has traditionally wanted experts to be ‘on tap, not on top’.
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