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Hello and welcome to a special Saturday edition of Coffey House Shots.

I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by Henry Euman, former advisor to

Michael Gove and now the editor of Whitehall Watch. Is that the right ready to

describe you Henry? Well I'm I started a couple of new projects since leaving government. One of them is White

to Watch on Twitter and I think during the election one of the most exciting Twitter

accounts other than the spectators. Yeah we actually have more than one but keep

going. The spectators Twitter feed or X as I suppose we're supposed to call it now

was Michael Crick's tomorrow's MP's project and I think And I think it was really important

in revealing who was going to stand for Parliament

and where, and the whole process behind that.

And I was thinking about Whitehall,

the public service and civil service specifically and how little attention gets

placed on this crucial institution. It's important for so many different things

that people, politicians care about. It obviously delivers so many of our public services and I think

it's also at the heart of many of the reasons why Britain potentially isn't working at the moment.

If you look at the sort of the productivity crisis or the productivity paradox of the UK, actually public sector productivity is the problem

rather than private sector productivity.

And I think one of the things I was trying to do with shining a light on this was start

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