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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
The incredible and the unbelievable
The publication yesterday of Ipsos Mori’s Veracity Index again shows the low regard in which the public hold ministers and politicians.
The importance of being insubordinate
When Tim Harford came to speak at the Institute last week he emphasised the need for more experimentation in policy making.
Opening up policy making: The wisdom of four
Last week Decentralisation and Planning Minister Greg Clark invited a housebuilder, a council leader and an environmentalist to draft the new NPPF.
Was Gordon Brown's 'Economic War Council' a new model for driving the PM's agenda?
One of the constitutional innovations under Prime Minister Brown was a new sort of Cabinet Committee – the National Economic Council.
Taking the myki: Melbourne's transport policy failures show importance of good policy design
For those of us who live in London, it is hard to imagine that Melbourne's versions of 'Boris bikes' or Oyster cards could be a failure.
Defra's Animal Health & Welfare Board: Letting the outside in
Proposals today by Defra to create an Animal Health and Welfare Board represent a fascinating move to open out policy making.
Fear of piloting
A group of Lib Dem peers want to delay national roll out of elected police commissioners until they have been piloted.
Policy iPad or policy New Coke?
According to one senior civil servant, "if we built aeroplanes the way we build policy, none would ever fly".
Policy making in the real world
This report looks at the attempts to improve policy making over the past fourteen years.
Making policy better
Our report proposes a series of changes to embed better policy making into the system.