Lucy Fisher is the FT's Whitehall editor.

露西·费希尔是《金融时报》编辑。

It's nothing to do with you or Whitehall.

跟你和无关。

Oh yes. For the whole Civil Service in Whitehall.

哦 是公务员用。

And it's put in a basement somewhere in Whitehall.

然后被放进某处下室里。

She's our Whitehall editor and the host of our Political Fix podcast.

她是我们编辑，也是我们政治修复播客主持人。

After all, we have two of the four Deputy Secretaries currently in Whitehall.

毕竟目前四个副常务次官里有两名就是来自我部。

Bickering in public and on the back benches belies a strikingly businesslike atmosphere in Whitehall.

无论公众面前还是政府内部，双喋喋不休争论反而使英国避免了商界般暗斗。

Experience has shown that these monkeys display the simian equivalent of the Whitehall studies' findings.

实验经过表明，这些猴子所表现出来是英国研究发现猴子版本。

I'm only proposing failure standards for local government, not here in Whitehall.

我只是提出政府设置失败标准又不是在施行。

I'm not swanning down from Whitehall.

我这不叫从跑来。

Minister, if the Prime Minister is behind a scheme, Whitehall on its own cannot block it.

大臣，如果首相要搞阴谋，光凭制止不了。

Aparently there are 90 Civil Servants in Sunderland except the duplicating the work of 90 more here in Whitehall.

在森德兰就有 90 名公务员明显在重复这儿另外 90 个人从事工作。

Yet a report published on September 4th, The Destruction of HM Treasury, says Whitehall's leviathan should count its days.

但是9月4日出版报告《英国财政部破坏》指出兴风作浪时日无多了。

But would you agree that there's even more bureaucratic waste there than there is in Whitehall?

但您是否也认为那里官僚浪费现象比还严重？

They're just not very interested in sending bits of blue paper to Whitehall.

他们就是不怎么想往上交蓝纸。

Decent city governments can be liberated to do their own thing, even as Whitehall tightens its grip over weaker ones.

虽然对政绩不佳城市加强了控制，但诚实可信城市政府可以自行其是。

Bartemy, of Whitehall, accompanied me on several trips.

Whitehall) 巴特米 ( Bartemy)先生陪同我进行了几次旅行。

So this figure prompted a lot of hand-wringing in Whitehall.

所以这个数字在引起了很大恐慌。

Lucy Fisher is the FT's Whitehall editor. Thanks, Lucy.

露西·费舍尔 (Lucy Fisher) 是英国《金融时报》编辑。谢谢，露西。

'Telephone Whitehall One Two One Two, ' chanted the kitchen staff happily.

“电话一二一二，”厨房工作人员高兴喊道。