External advisers could lead to rival power bases in departments

Supporting Ministers to Lead

This paper addresses the question of whether ministerial private offices provide the right kind of support to enable departmental secretaries of state

Civil Service Accountability to Parliament

Starmer's cautious pitch for UK power ducks hard economic choices

Gemma Tetlow, IfG chief economist, comments in Bloomberg on the credibility of the economic pledges made by Labour in their manifesto.

Could a Labour government break Britain’s planning deadlock?

Researcher Sophie Metcalfe comments in the FT on housing and planning.