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Hello and welcome to the Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots, I'm Cindy U.

While Parliament is on recess, the Civil Service is still at work and under the new government

they've been given a new way of doing things.

In a Spectator's political column this week, our political correspondent James Hill

writes about Starmer's plans to re-jig the civil service into a quote

mission-led government. What exactly does that mean?

James joins me now together with Jill Rutter from the Institute for Government and UK

in a changing Europe who is also a former civil servant. James let's start by

outlining the five missions and how they differ to the way

government is split into departments right now. Sure, so these are the pledges in which

Kirsten was elected and they are very broad but different areas so I'll just

quote them which are number one kick-start economic growth number two make

Britain a clean energy superpower number three take back our streets

number four breakdown barriers to opportunity and number 5 build an NHS fit for the future so different

outcomes in terms of growth education energy obviously and mission led government is supposed

to be rather than having traditional

supposed silos of departments where you've got you know maybe say 20

23 or so around the cabinet table of full cabinet positions who are all

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