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. And frankly, 100 political appointees [aides], doesn't even touch the sides in terms of dealing with that.
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Speaking at the opening session of the Conservative Political Action Conference (Cpac) in Washington DC, as cited in "Liz Truss targets 'trans activists'’, Blair and 'quangos' as she explains political meltdown at right-wing US conference", The Independent (London, 22 February 2024).