What is a civil servant?

Ever wondered what a civil servant truly does?

Editor of Civil Service World Suzannah Brecknell joins Tom Brown to unpack the role of civil servants and their crucial function in advising ministers.

They cover key challenges and changes facing the civil service, especially with a new government in power – is a change in government a relief or just more uncertainty?

And then how does the British administrative system compare to the US?

You can preorder Tom’s new book, The Mind of the Minister: Restoring trust between ministers and civil servants today, out 28 November.

Music: Galactic Rap Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/