
Francis Maude: To win, we must modernise all over again
Detoxifying the Party never meant moving to the left – this year’s manifesto was well to the left economically of anything we advocated.
Francis Maude is the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General
Detoxifying the Party never meant moving to the left – this year’s manifesto was well to the left economically of anything we advocated.
Truthfully, I expected at every stage that someone would come up with a showstopper reason why it can’t possibly work. No one has come up with one.
Last year, over a quarter of central government spend went to SMEs. That’s a huge, and probably unprecedented, £11.4 billion.
I’ve set out our ambition to have the best digital government offering in the G7 by the time of the next election. We are well on the way to meeting that.
The number of full time-trade union representatives is now less than a fifth of the level in 2011.
It’s wrong for Government to hold onto land and buildings it does not need.