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.
Making the National Infrastructure Commission work
Six pieces of advice.
In need of reform?
The future of economic regulation in the UK.
Can harsh medicine taste nice?
Government shouldn't sugarcoat cuts.
What have we learned so far from the English devo deals process?
And what are the challenges ahead?
A porous Civil Service
Will insiders finally help outsiders succeed in Whitehall?
Westminster over the water?
Canada’s general election and lessons for the UK.
The role of the modern Cabinet Secretary
A conversation with Sir Jeremy Heywood.
Meet the new Shadow frontbench
In five charts.
Diversity in the Civil Service
Women and Whitehall since 1979.
FOIA fighters
How departments dealt with Freedom of Information requests in the first quarter of the new government.