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Fred Wrigley is a civil servant. He writes under a pseudonym.
As a state bureaucracy, the Treasury is too controlling, conservative and elitist. Liz Truss’s attacks on it won’t make it work for ordinary people – but she’s right that change is needed, writes an anonymous civil servant.
The government’s disastrous herd immunity strategy owed much to its fabled ‘nudge unit’ – a relic from an ideological past, when policymakers believed that small changes would solve big problems.
An anonymous civil servant writes for Tribune about the politics of senior Whitehall figures and why they will aim to frustrate a Corbyn government.