Two further things I’ve been told by civil servants about how to talk to politicians (in my very limited experience of dealing with them):
Explain things as if to a 12-year-old, assuming no more sophisticated understanding than that (even to a junior government minister responsible for the field in question!)
Make 1 or at most 2 key points you want them to remember
Two further things I’ve been told by civil servants about how to talk to politicians (in my very limited experience of dealing with them):
Explain things as if to a 12-year-old, assuming no more sophisticated understanding than that (even to a junior government minister responsible for the field in question!)
Make 1 or at most 2 key points you want them to remember