Stephen Kelly

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621 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 10 Jul

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The Rest Is Money · 289. Why we need fewer civil servants · 21 Jun 2026 podcast

And the meeting was at the Scottish office, which is right at the almost Trafalgar end of Trafalgar Square end.

And then I got sent up there, went to the meeting.

No one there.

And then I found that the meeting had been rescheduled down the other end of Whitehall.

So I missed it.

And I went back to my, everybody has private offices.

So I'm not sort of used to this because I'm just, I'll get my own coffee and stuff.

But I had six people looking after me.

I had to, it's a good point.

But they are, well, actually, some of them are the most talented people.

And a guy called Simon French at PAMU, he was the guy running my private office.

What a talent, now chief economist, doing great things for Britain.

So these are super smart guys.

And actually, I'd say all the civil servants, I was very privileged.

I've worked with some amazing people like Jeremy Hayward.

Mark said, well, they're just brilliant people.

But he said, oh...

Well, I've heard that has been one of the tricks to play.

Send you off to a different meeting, different location.

Well, who knows?

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