Theresa May has brought her own advisers with her into No. 10, and as usual the knives are out for them: they are parasites, and what are the civil service and the cabinet for anyway? Romans had the same trouble with freedmen.
A ‘freedman’ (libertus or libertinus) was someone who had been a slave but been freed by his master.
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