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Through their collective bullying of Whitehall, Conservative ministers have inevitably made themselves a target.

David Lidington, front left, a former minister of state at the Cabinet Office, sits in front of then-prime minister Theresa May. Credit: Jessica Taylor/CC BY 3.0/Wikimedia Commons Brexiteers have long accused civil servants of hampering the UK’s exit from the EU. But new interviews with leading Tory ministers and advisers paint a very different picture – one in which, despite the best efforts of officials, Tory leaders’ miscalculations and in-fighting stymie progress. Adam Branson reports...