After years yearning for government, Stewart found it frustrating and dismaying. “If you try to act like a chief executive, the whole system reacts in very strange and unstable ways.” Appointed junior environment minister he demanded a flip chart, then listed his responsibilities — floods, national parks etc — and wrote, “Action?” next to each, to his civil servants’ bemusement. His greatest achievement is introducing the 5p plastic bag tax
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