Intelligence service = civil servants. They want to keep the power base they have in Britain.
To understand British politics it is best to look at it this way:
the opposition party is the opposition in exile
the ruling party is the opposition party
the civil service is the actual ruling party.
The government (political) debates law based on their advisers' (civil servants) recommendations. The civil service then executes that policy how they see fit, and if they don't like the policies they will forcibly stonewall, leak, and do anything they can to make that policy fail.
British politics is by far one of the most sordid and disgusting systems of government anyone has ever seen, and the fact it hasn't collapsed due to its own incompetence is purely due to the fact the corruption runs so deep that all institutions in the country are too invested in it to allow the people to see the flaws.
Intelligence service = civil servants. They want to keep the power base they have in Britain.
To understand British politics it is best to look at it this way:
The government (political) debates law based on their advisers' (civil servants) recommendations. The civil service then executes that policy how they see fit, and if they don't like the policies they will forcibly stonewall, leak, and do anything they can to make that policy fail.
British politics is by far one of the most sordid and disgusting systems of government anyone has ever seen, and the fact it hasn't collapsed due to its own incompetence is purely due to the fact the corruption runs so deep that all institutions in the country are too invested in it to allow the people to see the flaws.
i.e. Yes Minister.
Was just going to say the same, Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister showed this to a degree.