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The health secretary’s remarks about prostate cancer are the latest in a long line of ministerial blunders

We are ruled by a government that has, in a very short time, acquired a striking reputation for the crassness of its members’ utterances and actions.

 

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One of the important responsibilities of senior civil servants is to brief ministers about facts related to their brief which they are unlikely to understand fully. The aim is to prevent such crass public utterances. So what has gone wrong? Briefings are just ignored, not wrong.

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