Assertion: civil servant | /r/HasAspect | influence
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text: Civil servants have influence because they provide the advice which ministers use to make decisions and often have a lot of discretion in how policies are implemented.
text: You might think that even though civil servants can work on pressing problems, they won’t have much impact because they have to to carry out the will of ministers, who are in turn constrained by powerful groups such as the electorate, the EU, and big business.