All posts tagged "Rishi Sunak"
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Labour wins landslide UK election victoryThe Labour Party has secured a landmark victory in the UK general election, with the party winning more than 400 seats as the Conservative Party lost power for the first
- Posted July 5, 2024
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Finding new ways to fund climate action and defence | Australian government to charge departments for outsourcing: news in briefGlobal Government Forum’s weekly news roundup of public service intelligence Nations around the world are dealing with tight public finances, and this week’s GGF roundup highlights how governments are looking
- Posted May 9, 2024
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UK opposition to meet with civil servants ahead of general electionSenior politicians in the UK’s opposition Labour party will start talks with civil servants on how they would run government should they win the election later this year, having been
- Posted January 15, 2024
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UK chancellor caps size of civil serviceUK chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced he will cap the size of the UK civil service at its current headcount as part of a renewed government effort to reduce the
- Posted October 3, 2023
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UK to host global AI safety summit at iconic World War II codebreaking headquartersThe UK government has announced it will host an inaugural global AI safety summit in November at the iconic Bletchley Park, where British codebreakers famously cracked the ‘Enigma’ code during
- Posted August 31, 2023
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UK senior civil servants to get 5.5% pay rise – but departments must find ‘efficiencies’ to cover costSenior civil servants are set to receive a 5.5% pay increase next year after the UK government announced that it would accept the recommendations from public sector pay review bodies.
- Posted July 13, 2023
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‘Mature, sensible diplomacy’: UK and EU agree new trade agreement for Northern Ireland in Brexit breakthroughThe UK and the European Union have agreed a new deal over post-Brexit trading agreements for Northern Ireland, after months of negotiations over a highly contentious protocol agreed in 2019.
- Posted February 28, 2023
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Rishi Sunak’s reorganisation: history shows creating government departments in response to short-term problems is rarely a good ideaUK prime minister Rishi Sunak has announced a major reorganisation of Whitehall, creating a new department dedicated to energy and another for science and innovation as well bringing various business
- Posted February 19, 2023
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UK civil service ‘should be given stewardship role amid upheaval’ – as PM Sunak reorganises governmentThe UK government has been urged to strengthen the role of civil servants as stewards of government capability and advice in order to maintain delivery through periods of uncertainty. The
- Posted February 7, 2023
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From flexible working to digital ID: Global Government Forum’s top news stories of 2022What you’ve been reading over the last 12 months This year saw global turmoil as the economic fallout of COVID-19 took hold and Europe witnessed the first war on its
- Posted December 27, 2022
