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Your support makes all the difference.Senior civil servants are facing ministerial pressure to play politics, and join forces against Labour, in direct breach of Whitehall codes of conduct. The Association of First Division Civil Servants said last night that it was seeking an urgent meeting with Sir Robin Butler, head of the Home Civil Service, to make a formal complaint.
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