tom on a lot of exit issues and withjeremy heywood if with tom on a lot of exit issues and with jeremy heywoodnot like i was imposing this on them. i actually spoke to mark and said, here is my idea, are you happy with it, and he said, yes. great. sounds great. fin said, yes. great. sounds great. on the 15th of may, according to your statement, you had a long discussion at the private office in downing street to review what had gone wrong with the cabinet office. you raised issues about the lack of coordination across whitehall, the duplication requests, in essence, a failure to grip whatever issues are problems are confronted in the cabinet office. what was your view of the private office within downing street with him you are having those conversations? l street with him you are having those conversations?— conversations? i think the private office, as conversations? i think the private office. as l _ conversations? i think the private office, as i made _ conversations? i think the private office, as i made clear— conversations? i think the private office, as i made clear my i office, as i ma

think he'd worked with tom chinna lot of brexit issues chinna on a lot of brexit issues and with jeremy heywoodearlier. so it wasn't like i was imposing this on them. i actually spoke to mark and said, here's my idea. are you happy with it? and he said, yeah, that sounds really great, sounds great on the 15th of may, according to your statement, you had a long discussion with the private office in downing street to review what had gone wrong with the cabinet office . with the cabinet office. >> you raised issues about lack of coordination across whitehall , the duplication of requests , , the duplication of requests, in essence a failure to grip whatever issues or problems confronted the cabinet office . confronted the cabinet office. what was your view of the private office within downing street, with whom you were having those conversations ? having those conversations? >> i think the private office, as i made clear in my statement, was in all sorts of ways absolutely excellent. and i think it had some of the finest pubuc think it had some of the finest public servants in the whole system. i