Gus O’Donnell, head of civil servants in Great Britain, says that with 18 years of Conservative rule followed by 13 years of Labour, few UK civil servants will know how to deal with an election that bears no decisive results. He and his team have “rushed out a chapter dealing with elections and hung parliaments from an administrative manual it is working on,” reports Reuters UK.
Links to other sites: CS Monitor, Guardian, UK
Posted by Ellen Wallace on 25 February 2010 at 17:51 |
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News story, GenevaLunch, 25 February 2010.
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Tags: Britain, Conservatives, elections, GB, hung parliament, labour, UK
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