It wouldn’t be logical, however, to say Romeo was a controversially woke choice just because she was a civil servant; by that rationale, any cabinet secretary would be controversial. There are certainly conservatives who think so. One is named Liz Truss, who recently said on her YouTube channel that if there were a new series of Yes Minister, Humphrey Appleby would be a radicalised trans activist. To unpick that remark, as an analysis of the wokeness of the civil service, would take a while. But that isn’t the mainstream rightwing view on the civil service, yet.