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Politics Unpacked

Inside the government machine

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Matt Chorley is joined by Lord O'Donnell, the former cabinet secretary, David Gauke, the former cabinet minister, and Polly Mackenzie, the former No10 policy adviser, to ask if Whitehall is broken, who really has control, and if Dominic Cummings is right that the civil service needs more weirdos.

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0:00.0

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0:15.0

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0:19.0

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0:20.0

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0:31.3

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0:35.2

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0:40.3

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0:43.8

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0:59.7

Surely. So much for 2020 being boring instead instead of the start the year,

1:04.0

wondering if the world is going to end

1:05.0

with a ball of fire in Australia

1:06.0

and a World War III in the Middle East.

1:08.0

Close to home with the excitement of a Labour leadership contest

1:11.0

and whatever is the opposite excitement of a Lib Dem leadership

1:14.1

contest and over the coming weeks and months the way the government looks and operates is

1:18.0

going to change dramatically at least if Dominic Cummings gets his way and that's the

1:22.1

big question we want to address today.

1:24.0

Is Whitehall broken?

1:25.6

Do we need, is Dominic Cummings suggesting a blog last week,

1:28.0

more weirdos and misfits in the corridors of power?

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