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Jill Rutter
Senior Fellow
Jill's recent work
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The major parties are desperate to avoid 2024 being a Brexit election
What do the party manifestos tell us about where Brexit could go next?
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A distracted EU may not have much time to reset relations with the UK
The European parliament elections aren't likely to lead to a willingness to renegotiate the Brexit deal.
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Mayoral accountability hangs on divorcing local vote from national trends
The read-across from local contests to the national polls should be dismissed.
All work
Time to end Budgets’ special treatment
Jill asks whether the Treasury should continue to be allowed to exempt itself from the normal disciplines of policy making.
Divided by a common deficit
Comparing UK and US infrastructure problems.
Getting government to show its workings
Our new evidence transparency framework will give citizens a tool to understand governmental transparency.
Evidence transparency framework
This report provides a framework to rate government departments on how transparent they are in the use of evidence in policy decisions.
Show your workings
This report explores the possibility of developing a rapid assessment tool to rate government departments on their use of evidence in policy decisions
A porous Civil Service
Will insiders finally help outsiders succeed in Whitehall?
Making tax policy better
The case for strengthening the Office of Tax Simplification.
Not child’s play
What does the Kid’s Company case tell us about government’s relations with the third sector?
No contest – the time has come to ditch or reboot the Ministerial Contestable Policy Fund
It has been a damp squib – failing to improve either policy or transparency.
Speaking truth to power – from the crossbenches
How quickly should civil servants go public on their former responsibilities?