Report
WhatsApp in government: How ministers and officials should use messaging apps – and how they shouldn’t
Government must introduce rigorous WhatsApp guidance for ministers, special advisers and officials.
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Government must introduce rigorous WhatsApp guidance for ministers, special advisers and officials.
Government problems go beyond party or ideology: the whole system needs to change.
The scale and severity of the problems facing the next government.
Ethical scandals, like the election betting furore, disrupt the ability of governments to deliver on their political priorities.
Trust in politics, and in the people and institutions of public life in the UK, is at an all-time low.