Abstract
Abstract The civil service played a prominent role in the Scott story, yet escaped any mention in the report’s recommendations and hardly figured in the subse quent parliamentary debates. Ever present but rarely noticed, central yet ignored: such has been the habitual fate of the British civil service in consid erations by constitutional lawyers, and the Scott report was no exception. Yet the civil service was subject to the most wide-rnnging constitutional reforms of the long Conservative period in office. Although during the 1997 general election campaign John Major frequently raised constitutional reform as an area where Labour could not be trusted and was a threat to the future of this United Kingdom, his government was the most constitutionally reform minded since Wilson’s first administration m the 1960s. Nowhere was this more evident than with the civil service.
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