Coronavirus
How to deal with a second wave and lockdown: views from the UK and overseas
This podcast explored how other countries – and cities in the UK – are dealing with new localised lockdowns, and asked what the UK can learn.
Whitehall Monitor: The cost of Covid-19
Covid-19 is already likely to cost the UK government £317bn – in increased public borrowing – in 2020/21 alone.
State aid rules after Brexit
The UK will be bound by the EU’s state aid rules until the end of the Brexit transition period.
The government should bring its moonshot announcements back to earth
On Covid, the government declares what it will do before knowing whether it can actually do it
Extraordinary coronavirus restrictions on personal freedom require proper parliamentary scrutiny
Emergency powers used to restrict people’s freedoms must be given far greater democratic scrutiny and debate that has been sorely lacking
The early pandemic response offers the government lessons for the next phase
The government needs to have a strategy, be clear who is doing what and use evidence wisely to make the best choices
Decision making in a crisis
This report examines decisions made in three areas: economic support, Covid-19 testing and the lockdown.
The biggest challenges for the new cabinet secretary are coronavirus and civil service reform
The question is whether Simon Case can lead the civil service through coronavirus, Brexit and its own reforms
Gavin Williamson should go too
For the long series of serious misjudgements about schools during the pandemic, the buck should stop with the secretary of state
Party conferences
Every autumn, UK political parties hold their annual conferences – gatherings of politicians, party members and affiliated groups.