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Saving the Union? Philip Rycroft on Whitehall and the Scottish independence referendum

I attended a fascinating talk at St Catharine’s College in Cambridge earlier this week, organised by the University’s Bennett Institute for Public Policy, on ‘Saving the Union? Whitehall and the Sc…

Very interesting, Mark. Philip is dead right about the const’l myopia at the heart of Whitehall, most especially in the Cabinet Office. The point I’d make is that it’s much more a civil service problem than an elected member problem. It’s a function, in my view, of centralisation.