All posts tagged "Prime Minister"

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  New UK prime minister Liz Truss ‘must mend relations with civil servants to meet historic challenges’

  The UK’s new prime minister Liz Truss will need to rebuild the government’s relationship with the civil service to be able to deliver her pledges at a time of global

  • Posted September 6, 2022
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  Ministerial code no longer working and needs overhaul, warns UK think tank

  The UK’s ministerial code, which establishes the standards that govern ministers’ behaviour, needs to be “overhauled” and underpinned by statute, according to a leading think tank.  Multiple incidents – including

  • Posted July 8, 2021
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  Ministers must be challenged on misleading statements, says former cabinet secretary

  Former cabinet secretary Lord O’Donnell today expressed frustration with ministers who make false statements or skew statistics, a trend he says is eroding public trust in government. Speaking at an

  • Posted March 17, 2021
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  Johnson forges ahead with civil service shake-up

  UK prime minister Boris Johnson is moving policy advisers out of Downing Street and into the Cabinet Office as part of wider plans to ensure that No 10, the Treasury

  • Posted August 14, 2020
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  UK PM’s chief adviser ‘getting in the way’ of good government, says union chief

  The behaviour of UK PM Boris Johnson’s chief adviser is harming departments’ ability to deliver the government’s objectives, FDA general secretary Dave Penman has told Global Government Forum. “What’s been

  • Posted February 21, 2020
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  ‘Civil service is too big’, says Malaysian PM

  The prime minister of Malaysia has said he would like to see a reduction in the civil service workforce, which has grown from one million in 2003 to 1.7 million

  • Posted February 25, 2019
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  Looking past the politics: Britain’s future under the EU withdrawal deal

  UK politicians are hopelessly divided over the Withdrawal Agreement. But their furious debate overlooks the most essential question: if it is approved, what happens next? Matt Ross asks former Cabinet

  • Posted December 19, 2018
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  Whither Brexit? Explaining the UK’s political chaos

  An attempt to unseat the prime minister. Deadlock between government and Parliament. A hopelessly fragmented House of Commons. What on earth has happened to Britain’s normally-pragmatic politicians – and where

  • Posted December 14, 2018
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  Challenging the policy of procrastination

  The British government has decided not to decide its Brexit goals, Gordon Brown argued this week; but the country can’t begin this journey without knowing its destination. Matt Ross hears

  • Posted November 15, 2018
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  Rush of new delivery units enjoying mixed success, says think tank

  Governments around the world are increasingly emulating the ‘delivery unit’ model pioneered in the UK, but with mixed success, research suggests. A report published today by the London-based Institute for

  • Posted April 27, 2017
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