http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/andrew-gilligan/7728278/Leaked-memo-reveals-what-Whitehall-really-thinks-of-its-new-masters.html

Leaked memo reveals what Whitehall really thinks of its new masters Whitehall insecurities about its new Conservative masters are laid bare in eye-opening secret papers leaked to The Sunday Telegraph.
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The paper bluntly admits that the "Minister's agenda" is different from "our own agenda" – but says that the department is "willing to flex our own agenda" to the minister's, in perhaps the clearest admission yet seen that Whitehall regards itself as the real government and ministers as mere birds of passage.