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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
Beware the consensus rabbit
Change should always be scrutinised.
Emergent Ministerial Offices
Are they working?
Putting the child poverty target into law needed more thought
Setting ambitious targets with no clear way of achieving them undermines trust.
Floodcheck
What is the background to the flooding debacle?
MINDSPACE grows up
Behavioural economics in government.
The Strange Case of Non-Ministerial Departments
A deeper look at this obscure category of government bodies, which cover organisations from the Royal Mint to the National Crime Agency.