[On civil servants] There's about 5-10% of them who are very, very bad. You know, should-be-in-prison bad. [...] Leaking official secrets, undermining their ministers … agitating. I had some of it in my department, usually union-led, but most of them actually want to do a good job. And the good ones are very frustrated by the bad ones.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "[On civil servants] There's about 5-10% of them who are very, very bad. You know, should-be-in-prison bad. [...] Leaking official secrets, undermining their ministers … agitating. I had some of it in my department, usually union-led, but most of them actually want to do a good job. And the good ones are very frustrated by the bad ones." in the context of "Speaking at a Conservative Party conference fringe meeting (1 October 2024) organised by The Spectator magazine, as cited by Jessica Elgot in "Some civil servants so bad they should be in prison, says Kemi Badenoch", The Guardian (1 October 2024).
• Asked later about these comments, a source close to Badenoch said she had been joking." to mean that wisdom is timeless.