All of the three main parties have frustrations with government. Nick Herbert’s GovernUp is there to help.
“The Cabinet Office really should have given some guidance here… they’ve made a mess of this.”
At the heart of the row over two of the Home Secretary’s SpAds is the view at the very top of the Party that the next election is all that matters.
The Tories may have been unprepared for Civil Service reform in 2010, but the same won’t happen in 2015. The plan is already in place and already working.
Gove, May, IDS, Grayling, Maude. Unlike the minnows of Labour and UKIP, these are serious people delivering serious change for serious times.
The Prime Minister will have more influence in the appointment of senior officials. That should help Whitehall know who’s boss.
Union militancy is terminally on the wane – how long can the lefty leaders pretend otherwise?
It hasn’t helped that responsibility for children and young people’s issues has now been fragmented from the deafeningly silent DfE across Government departments.
Ending check-off and the rolling mandate would be welcome – but we should still demand majority mandates for strike action.
His assurances about the publication of the Chilcot Report are designed to calm those calling for answers.
Mutualised planning teams could develop and sell world-leading expertise, for example in heritage, or rural, or high-rise, or low-energy development.
As David Cameron flies to Israel, we should study the Jewish state’s combination of technical know-how and entrepreneurial culture.
The tech industry is getting together with the Cabinet Office to think up new ways to help victims of flooding and other crises.
As outlined, it suggests continuity with the Coalition’s approach. But there are tensions sbetween its aims and those of a future Labour finance team.
Last year, over a quarter of central government spend went to SMEs. That’s a huge, and probably unprecedented, £11.4 billion.