‘Now people are joining the civil service who are essentially activists – they might be trans activists, they might be environmental extremists – but they are now having a voice within the civil service in a way I don’t think was true 30 or 40 years ago, so we just have a wholly new problem’
Liz Truss blamed the “administrative state” for sabotaging her premiership as she appeared at a major US political conference which will be headlined by Donald Trump.