Whatever guidelines there may be on engagement with organisations, no-one will take them seriously if the Government doesn’t do so itself.
Perhaps the answer is bound up with China – and our inability to focus on more than a single problem at once.
At the heart of the Rutnam row is its reservations not only about how the post-Brexit journey is being negotiated, but about taking it in the first place.
If you don’t like what the Treasury’s up to, criticise the Chancellor, who’s accountable for it – not those who work for him, who aren’t.
The brouhaha that disrupted Queen’s Speech Day had more to do with personality than policy – as so often is the case.