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Where are they now? asks SOLOMON HUGHES, of yesterday’s civil servants. With their noses in the corporate lobbying trough, of course
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EVERY week I ask “Where are they now?” The answer often differs in the details, but the big picture is the same: a picture of corporations buying slices of the government.
I consider this “where are they now” question by checking various registers for what happens to senior civil servants and former ministers as they exit the government and enter well-paid corporate jobs.
I assume at the conferences, flower-show receptions or corporate boxes at the races where top civil servants and ministers gather they ask the same question – and are heartened to hear about the corporate careers of their former colleagues.
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