Non-civil Servants

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Civil Service – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 4 July 1983.

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Photo of Alan Williams Alan Williams , Swansea West 12:00, 4 July 1983

Has not the Prime Minister, in her appointments to top Civil Service posts, her sacking of the Think Tank and her axing and humiliation of Ministers who dared to disagree with her, displayed an obsession to surround herself with boot-licking yes-men? Is not the blinkered style and personality of the Prime Minster the great deterrent — [HON MEMBERS: "Reading."] I am not reading, as hon. Members can see. I say this with passion. Is not that the greatest deterrent to the recruitment of people of real ability to the Civil Service? Does not that mean that only neutered clones will search for such posts?