Sir Ed Davey

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478 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 2 Jun

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Walking The Dog with Emily Dean · Sir Ed Davey (Part One) · 2 Jun 2026 podcast

Yeah.

And I ended up not getting a grant.

So I ended up applying for loads of different jobs and ended up with the Liberal Democrats as their economics advisor.

Yeah, I think it's MI6, actually.

MI6 is foreign.

MI5 is domestic.

So, yeah, no, I'd applied to the Civil Service.

Yeah.

And that's another story.

But they sent this letter out of the blue saying there's some positions in the Civil Service which aren't open to competition and we'd like you to apply.

Oh.

I was excited, but I was a bit sort of nervous as well.

thought, what's this about?

So I applied and you had to tell them that the inside leg measurement had been great-armed so they could do their sort of background checks.

And then I went to an

What was that like?

Well, it was just me and this other guy and it was a big, massive room and he spent the first hour asking about me, about my life and something like you're doing.

nicer.

Yeah, well they were quite nice, but you're much nicer, obviously.

And then halfway through there was a table in the middle and he said, I now want you to, before I say any further, you've got to sign the official sequence.

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