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George Eustice
George Eustice reflects on his time in the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Preparing a shadow ministerial team for office
What the last two changes of government tell us about effective transitions.
Ofcom
What is Ofcom and what does it do?
Sunak's little local difficulties and Starmer's big local victories
The Guardian’s Rafael Behr joins the podcast team to crunch the numbers and examine what the local election results mean for Sunak and Starmer.
Civil service politicisation is the wrong answer to the wrong question
Politicisation of the civil service is a solution that risks neither fixing its problems nor delivering its supposed advantages.
The regulation of political finance
What are the challenges to the current regulatory system for political finance?
Rishi Sunak would be right to ditch the Retained EU Law Bill
Rishi Sunak seems to be aligning himself with the Brexit supporting practical pragmatists, rather than with the impractical ideologues.
Scapegoats or snowflakes? The future of the civil service
The IfG podcast team asks what Dominic Raab's resignation means for the future of the civil service.
The Treasury and the Covid crisis
Financial Times economics editor Chris Giles joins the podcast team for a deep dive into how the UK’s finance ministry performed during the pandemic.
Hitting the 20,000 police officer target won’t fix the criminal justice sector’s problems
Hitting its police officer recruitment target is impressive, but wider problems need addressing.