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Govt says it wants ‘innovators and disrupters’

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Govt says it wants ‘innovators and disrupters’

Govt says it wants ‘innovators and disrupters’

Pat McFadden says the government wants "innovators and disrupters" in the civil service system.

Delivering a speech in east London, the chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster says, "You might remember a few years ago, there was a call for weirdos and misfits in the system”.

Report by Blairm.

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