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.
Cabinet Committees, sub-Committees and taskforces
We take a look at the new committees.
Chair and chair alike: Commons select committee chairs, in five charts
Commons select committee chairs, in five charts.
The cyber security race
Governments must run faster just to keep pace.
Select committees under scrutiny
The Institute for Government publishes new research.
The challenge of the 2015 Spending Review
We unpack.
What can we learn from yesterday’s Treasury announcement about the coming Spending Review?
Julian McCrae thinks the numbers in the announcement may not be that comforting for the fiscal hawks.
Women and Whitehall
How did Whitehall change after 1979 – and what does that mean for its future?
How the 2015 Spending Review will differ from 2010
The Institute for Government and the Institute for Fiscal Studies examine the challenges for the 2015 Spending Review.
Select committees in the 2015 parliament
In the aftermath of the election the shape of the select committee system in the new parliament is now beginning to emerge.
Speaking truth to power – from the crossbenches
How quickly should civil servants go public on their former responsibilities?