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Alan Johnson arrived at the Department for Trade and Industry in the early evening for his first ministerial job: ‘waiting for me outside on that soft summer’s evening was my private secretary, a young rapscallion by the name of Simon Lancaster’ who was to usher him ‘into the closed order of ministerial life’.
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Andrews, L. (2024). Shaping the Ministerial Mindset. In: Ministerial Leadership. Understanding Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50008-4_5
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