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No Minister? Whitehall & the UK coalition

Britain's Lib-Con coalition government is pushing the most radical reform agenda in decades. Tasked to implement it are the nation's famously impartial civil servants. But should they have said "No Minister" more often in the coalition's first year? UK news editor Sarah Neville discusses with former permanent secretary Sir Richard Mottram, and FT columnist and Whitehall observer Sue Cameron.