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Interviews with Truss and Johnson ministers prove time in government shouldn’t be wasted
Being a minister in a government with a majority is a rare opportunity.
School concrete crisis shows the danger of short-term capital budget thinking
Capital budgets need to be made less prone to unpredictability.
This should be Labour's last pre-election reshuffle
Keir Starmer has made some big changes to Labour's shadow ministerial team.
The stars are aligning for an autumn of distracted government
Rishi Sunak faces a trying autumn of difficulties and distractions.
The Rishi Reshuffle
The IfG podcast team is back to take stock of the last few months – and look ahead to what a lively couple of months might bring for government.
Public sector pay is not the only aspect of fiscal policy that can stoke inflation
Is fiscal policy really the right way to try to cut inflation?
Becoming a minister: Part 5 – Managing budgets and working with the Treasury
Andrea Leadsom, Justine Greening and Dame Una O'Brien tell us why ministers have less control over spending than you – and they – might think.
Reshuffles will always primarily be about politics
Tim Durrant responds to Tim Leunig's suggestions for overhauling the way government reshuffles are run.
Five takeaways from Rishi Sunak’s August 2023 ‘mini-reshuffle’
The IfG expert team assess what Rishi Sunak's ministerial changes reveal
How to appoint a cabinet
This guest paper from Tim Leunig outlines a more cohesive way to approach cabinet formation