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.
Taking transparency to taskforce
Yesterday’s launch of the Open Contracting Data Standard marked a significant step in enabling governments to be more transparent about their contract
Special advice: how to make a prime ministerial unit work
How to be a Tsar.
Lord Browne - Successes but ragged at the edges
Does Whitehall welcome businesspeople?
Charting the challenges for the next Government
How is Whitehall faring?
How my experience can help make better policy
Engaging with lived experiences is vital for making good policy.
That the question be not now put
What did Yvette Cooper just not now do?
Resolving confusion: the unaddressed issue of public bodies reform
How is public body reform faring?
The National Security Council - its history and its future
The National Security Council was one of the coalition government’s first creations in May 2010. The Institute for Government and Whitehall History pr
Patchwork Britain
Greater Manchester gets moving.
Mind your language
Do the words that policymakers use work?