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"We're all fucked. I'm fucked. You're fucked. The whole department's fucked. It's been the biggest cock-up ever and we're all completely fucked."

Sir Richard Mottram, KCBE, permanent secretary at the Department of Transport, to a colleague on the events leading to the simultaneous "resignation" of minister Stephen Byers' two press officers, Martin Sixsmith and Jo Moore in February 2002.