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Richard Holden: This week’s spending review must show voters in Red Wall seats like mine that they were right to trust us

It’s vital that on education, policing and infrastructure, as much clarity is given as possible to departments as possible in terms of long-term funding.

By Richard Holden MP | 23 November 2020 | 45 comments

The Constitution, Democracy and Rights Commission pledged in the Conservative Manifesto is being quietly shelved

It was promised “in our first year”. Instead, there will be mini-commissions, and a push to reform a Government bugbear: judicial review.

By Paul Goodman | 23 July 2020 | 151 comments

Friends of Cummings: “A hard rain is coming.”

“Dom is a decentraliser,” we were told.  “But he’s resistant to decentralising to people who he thinks aren’t up to the job.”

By Paul Goodman | 24 June 2020 | 243 comments

Javid’s resignation letter hits out at Cummings: It’s important to have “trusted teams” that reflect “character and integrity”

“I would urge you to ensure the Treasury as an institution retains as much credibility as possible.”

13 February 2020 | 80 comments

Ryan Bourne: The limits of weirdos and misfits

“Bad management” or “the wrong skills” or “incompetent people” are held up as the root cause of bad government.My central gripe is that I doubt this is true.

By Ryan Bourne | 8 January 2020 | 16 comments

White hot heat of the technological Cummings?

This new government seems to want to concentrate its energies on giving Britain a cutting edge. Will it succeed where others have failed?

By Paul Goodman | 3 January 2020 | 232 comments

Nick Hargrave: Ten pieces of advice for political staffers during this coming election

In some campaigns, the end result is overwhelmingly likely before a stump has been erected. This is not one of those occasions.

By Nick Hargrave | 2 November 2019 | 82 comments

Grieve’s demand for advisers’ correspondence touches on awkward questions of how transparency really works

He’s right that such data is public, even if in private hands. But the route he has taken to try to obtain it is full of difficulties.

By Mark Wallace | 13 September 2019 | 45 comments

Nick Hargrave: How Downing Street should adapt to the new premiership – if either is to work at all

Governing is harder than campaigning – and doing so with next to no majority in an emerging constitutional crisis is another order altogether.

By Nick Hargrave | 20 July 2019 | 15 comments

Richard Chew: We need to professionalise the Special Advisers

They’re an easy target for criticism, but SpAds make all the difference to the Government’s performance and the Party’s prospects.

By Richard Chew | 27 June 2019 | 34 comments

This fair hearing for Blair cannot rehabilitate him

Jon Davis and John Rentoul’s new book contains valuable material, but cannot efface Iraq, or the former Prime Minister’s self-righteousness.

By Andrew Gimson | 6 April 2019 | 66 comments

Iain Dale: Brexit Derangement Syndrome breaks out everywhere. Adonis, Bridgen – and now, alas, Boles. Everyone’s going bonkers.

Plus: Which of Hancock’s Slags should I liaise with? I’m not known as “Uncle Herod” for nothing. And: Here’s hoping 2019 is happier than 2018.

By Iain Dale | 21 December 2018 | 152 comments

Andrew Goodfellow: The Conservative Research Department is as effective as ever – in a more complex and challenging world

Andrew Gimson’s article on this site yesterday was wrong about its condition. The quality of SpAds that it produces is still high.

By Andrew Goodfellow | 3 May 2018 | 38 comments

The Rudd debacle highlights a problem. Many of the Government’s special advisers are no good.

Ministers like Amber Rudd have great difficulty finding able SpAds because the Conservative Research Department, which used to train them, has been destroyed.

By Andrew Gimson | 2 May 2018 | 99 comments

Nick Faith: Five actions for new Secretaries of State as they get to grips with their new departments

Given Brexit, limited parliamentary time and a hung parliament, one priority is to demonstrate how leaving the EU will create specific opportunities for Britain.

By Nick Faith | 11 January 2018 | 8 comments

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