Incisive commentary from the IfG’s expert team on issues facing government and key ministerial decisions.
From analysis of key political events such as budgets and party conferences to snap responses to unexpected developments such as government reshuffles, our writers set out their views and analyse what government gets right, what it gets wrong, and what it can do better.
The government’s Covid policy is collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions
The prime minister has failed to justify a coronavirus policy that is contradictory, confused and will not work.
The ministerial powers proposed in the Health and Care Bill should not be granted
Nicholas Timmins unpicks the latest government plans to reform the NHS
Rishi Sunak turns to the City in search of Brexit dividends
The government's choices will determine whether embracing regulatory freedom will outweigh the disadvantages of losing access to the single market.
Now is the right time to phase out the furlough scheme
Thomas Pope says it is the right time to remove this economy-wide support
Four questions for the government on its Covid strategy
Tom Sasse asks four questions of the government’s Covid strategy
Gavin Williamson must end the Covid chaos in the classroom
Sam Freedman says the government must either vaccinate secondary age pupils or aim for herd immunity in that age group
The subsidy control bill does not guarantee post-Brexit state aid success
Thomas Pope says the success of the UK’s system for regulating state subsidies is far from certain
The settled status scheme’s success is no guarantee of avoiding future policy problems
Tonight’s deadline for getting millions of EEA citizens to secure their status in the UK will usher in a stream of problems
Matt Hancock’s resignation is also Boris Johnson’s failure
While Matt Hancock eventually resigned for his breach of Covid rules, the reaction to his behaviour should be a wake-up call to the government
The questions about advisers that must follow the Matt Hancock affair
Dr Catherine Haddon says the problems of how publicly funded government advisers are appointed is not a matter the government can consider closed