Patrick_Diamond_The_End_of_Whitehall

In the British administrative tradition, civil servants were loyal to the government of the day, not the political party that comprised the government. [...] The second point relates to the consequences of undermining the Whitehall paradigm, which has been detrimental to the quality of statecraft. [...] The institutions of the British state operate according to the imperatives of the ‘permanent campaign’ and NPG. [...] THE DEMISE OF THE WHITEHALL MODEL All recent governments have been complicit in the denigration of the Whitehall model. [...] THE EROSION OF TRUST Over the last twenty years, however, the state bureaucracy has been contaminated by the rise of the ‘spin’ machine and the imperatives of the ‘permanent campaign’.