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The Press Officeffice is headed by the chief press secretary. Prime ministers have chosen various ways to solve the problem of organizing No. 10’s press relations. Some previous chief press secretaries were political appointees, brought in as temporary civil servants for their known political views and experience o

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The Political Officet No. 10. The official designation reflected growing specialization and formalization within the Prime Minister’s Office, but the political office has always been the least structured and collegiate unit at No. 10. It corrals together a set of actors whose main task is to relate the prime minister t

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The ‘Sinecure’ Ministers figure. ‘Sinecure’ posts with names like ‘Lord President of the Council’, ‘Lord Privy Seal’, or ‘Minister without Portfolio’, contribute to Britain’s ‘government in the fog’.. They provide freedom from depart­mental duties to a party leader, such as Lord Whitelaw in the mid-1980s, quietly chairing

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Organizing and Managing the Civil Servicersue their aims. This chapter differs from the others in that it considers how prime ministers, ministers and their advisers at the centre have tried to reform the central organization and management of the civil service, to make it respond to ministers’ demands and implement government policy effic