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Posts Tagged: Policy Unit

Profile: Munira Mirza, the Muslim from Oldham who leads Johnson’s Policy Unit

The Prime Minister is being urged to employ more women, but here is one who already makes it difficult for him to get away with sloppy thinking.

By Andrew Gimson | 21 May 2020 | 37 comments

The question isn’t whether to end the lockdown. It’s when and how to do it. Can the Government rise to the challenge?

The Prime Minister’s hospitalisation accentuates the need for a new strategic structure to support a new strategic plan.

By Paul Goodman | 6 April 2020 | 195 comments

John Redwood: Lessons for managing civil service obstruction from the Thatcher years. And my role as head of her Policy Unit.

There were plenty of Yes Minister routines and scripts to live through then as now. Much of the system did not like the privatisation programme.

By Sir John Redwood MP | 4 March 2020 | 106 comments

The Treasury fights back. How it plans to drive radical reform – and become “the Government’s internal think tank”

Would the Government have the bottle for planning, childcare and police overhauls – and will Downing Street sign up to this plan anyway?

By Paul Goodman | 3 February 2020 | 76 comments

Nick Hargrave: A memo to the next Tory leader. How you govern will be no less important than why.

The cohort of future Conservative leadership candidates would do well to start thinking about the structure of the Number 10 they want to build.

By Nick Hargrave | 2 March 2019 | 17 comments

James Frayne: Onward, the new think-tank, is rightly focused on what matters to provincial Britain

It would be easy, but mistaken, to take the path of least resistance and simply re-enact the dated Cameron ‘modernising’ agenda.

By James Frayne | 22 May 2018 | 70 comments

Adapt to survive. How May must share power with her Cabinet, Tory MPs, Party members and the Commons.

Davidson should have a standing invite to attend Political Cabinet, and be encouraged to speak her mind – on Brexit, the DUP and anything else.

By Paul Goodman | 10 June 2017 | 259 comments

Interview: George Freeman, who chairs May’s Policy Board, on Britain’s “Arctic Convoy” moment

He sees the referendum result as a “defining test” for Britain, and is charged with finding solutions to help meet the challenge.

By Andrew Gimson | 7 December 2016

Securing the Majority 9) Keeping 331 Conservative MPs busy

Support Groups. Policy Development. Backbench Committees. Lord Feldman’s Review. Campaigning. There’s plenty for them to do.

By Paul Goodman | 28 May 2015 | 18 comments

Housing supply. Why we need more garden cities

The alternative to building lots of homes in many places is build lots of homes in a few places: this would certainly lessen, or at least limit, the political penalty involved.

By Paul Goodman | 19 May 2014 | 29 comments

Tory backbenchers are involved in the manifesto for next year – but not in the one for a few weeks’ time

That the Policy Commissions are not in the loop for the manifesto for the European elections highlights the gap between Cameron and his Party on EU policy.

By Paul Goodman | 16 March 2014 | 31 comments

The 2020 Group of Conservative MPs prepares to help shape the next manifesto

We can look forward to proposals on the economy, society and governance from the group that wants to revive the optimism of the early Cameron project.

By Paul Goodman | 29 January 2014 | 8 comments

Alex Morton of Policy Exchange goes to Downing Street

The move is good news for housing (and our #HomesJobsSavings campaign).

By Paul Goodman | 10 December 2013 | 7 comments

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  • Ryan Bourne: Why is Sunak so taken with tax rises – when the tax burden is forecast to be its heaviest for 70 years? March 2, 2021
  • Jack Richardson: Green policy as security policy. And why we shouldn’t let China corner the market in new technologies. March 2, 2021
  • The Budget should be a big reset moment for post-Brexit, post-Covid Britain. It risks being lost amidst a rush to tax rises. March 1, 2021
  • Richard Holden: The Chancellor shouldn’t try to win a spending arms race with Labour – which we would lose anyway March 1, 2021
  • Anand Menon: What does Global Britain mean in practice, and when will the Government deliver it? March 1, 2021
  • Ryan Bourne: Why is Sunak so taken with tax rises – when the tax burden is forecast to be its heaviest for 70 years? March 2, 2021
  • Jack Richardson: Green policy as security policy. And why we shouldn’t let China corner the market in new technologies. March 2, 2021
  • David Sidwick: Police and Crime Commissioners should not be too cosy with Chief Constables March 2, 2021
  • WATCH: Truss discusses ‘Global Britain – navigating the post-Brexit world’ March 2, 2021
  • Dan Boucher: Labour’s stewardship of the NHS in Wales has been disastrous. Come May, it’s time for a Conservative administration. March 1, 2021
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