>>It would be interesting to see the rest of it to put everything into context because it sounds as if her departments senior mandarins were either uncooperative or even deliberately obstructive.
Utterly not relevant in the assessment of Prit. Unless one believes that the Ministerial Code only applies when dealing with someone one decides doing their job the way one wants it done.
The summary of those comments is that Prit does not follow the Ministerial Code unless everybody does what she says at the speed and in the style she wants it. That she has zero interpersonal sensitivity and no sense of how people feel around her.
That unless someone takes her to one side, sits her down and gives her the J&J then she is incapable of improvement or self-assessment.
That is the standard of a low-level, likely to be unsuccessful, factory team leader. Not some high-flying politician.
If *any* manager of mine had ever received that summary, irrespective of the detail, then whilst they might still have a career direction it would not be up.
The fact that the Civil Service are by and large a bunch of unimaginative gits that will protect their beloved status quo in the face of any argument or incentive and like nothing more to stand their with their sulky, teenage pouts stamping their feet in petulance is beyond the scope of assessing Prit.
The Ministerial Code says that “Ministers should be professional in their working relationships with the Civil Service and treat all those with whom they come into contact with consideration and respect.”
And she didn't. I don't think one needs to go any further.
There were available avenues if she believed that others were not behaving appropriately. However, being good at your job is not one of the criteria for "behaving appropriately". That is a matter for performance management which includes agreed goals and formal assessment/feedback.
So as a strategist she is quite possibly excellent. As a manager of people she should not be allowed out on her own.
It is a measure of Johnson that this fact does not bother him.
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