The war on civil servants
Civil servants seem to have come under fire in Europe and in the US. The UK's ambassador to the EU, Sir Ivan Rogers, has resigned. He has since been criticised for saying a Brexit trade deal could take ten years rather than two years, and Nigel Farage called him a "committed Europhile, clearly the wrong man for the job". President-elect Donald Trump has been regularly attacking the bureaucracy and its costs. Before and after the election, he promised a hiring freeze on federal workers. Jill Rutter, a former civil servant and now programme director at the Institute for Government and Charlie Wolf, a Conservative commentator and Trump supporter, discuss the pros and cons of civil servants. (Photo: A sign for Whitehall. Credit: Getty Images)