A cabinet secretary is responsible for speaking truth to power and representing the traditions of the civil service.

“but also part of your job in that position is to speak truth to power and part of speaking truth to power is to tell them the limits of the power that they have”

A cabinet secretary should have the gravitas to represent the traditions of the civil service to the prime minister.

“I mean these were sort of they came in at much I think they were much older when they came in they had incredible seniority within the Burke Trend another very famous one wasn't he had such sort of Gravitas and such an ability to sort of represent the Traditions the Civil Service in its best way to ”