Well worth reading the latest @jillongovt.bsky.social blog for @instituteforgovernment.org.uk
on a system which treated Mandelson as just another FCDO employee, rather than someone who needed to go through a political appointment process.
Watch now!
🚨30 minutes to go before our expert team set out the @instituteforgovernment.org.uk verdict on the Peter Mandelson vetting scandal, the sacking of Olly Robbins and what it all means for Keir Starmer...
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/peter-...
Olly Robbins is in front of the foreign affairs committee in an hour's time to give his side of the Mandelson vetting story. He is expected to say he followed the rules but here are the 5 things I'm looking for: 🧵
Join us at 12.30 when we will be dissecting the consequences of the Mandelson vetting scandal after Sir Olly Robbins’s evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/peter-...
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TODAY | The Peter Mandelson scandal: What are the lessons for Keir Starmer's government?
Join us live at 12:30 as @timdurrant.bsky.social @hannahkeenan.bsky.social @jillongovt.bsky.social @drhannahwhite.bsky.social explore the fall-out from the vetting and the sacking of Sir Olly Robbins.
While we hear from Olly Robbins, do sign up for our @instituteforgovernment.org.uk webinar at lunchtime looking at what we can learn from the Mandelson affair...
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Doing a webinar with my very great @instituteforgovernment.org.uk colleagues tomorrow (Tues) lunchtime to try and unpack some of this post Starmer and Robbins statements - do sign up!
The extent to which I would much rather be writing about the IfG's new report on employment support (read it! It's really interesting) tomorrow than yet another round of 'man who refuses to do the job of PM properly continues to be bad at it' cannot be overstated.
📺 The Peter Mandelson scandal: What are the lessons for Keir Starmer's government?
Essential @instituteforgovernment.org.uk webinar with @drhannahwhite.bsky.social @jillongovt.bsky.social @timdurrant.bsky.social @hannahkeenan.bsky.social
Tues 12:30
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/peter-...
Excellent new @instituteforgovernment.org.uk comment by @hannahkeenan.bsky.social on the handling of the Mandelson vetting row fall-out - and the damage being done to civil service-ministerial relations.
Lively debate upstairs @instituteforgovernment.org.uk on whether this was a fiscal event or not (splitting wonkland now). The fiscal eventers (as per @ruthcurtice.bsky.social) argue that there was a big spending figure on SEND, accommodated by a significant revision to the fiscal forecast.
🎧 Essential listening this week as Sir Alex Younger - former MI6 chief - joins the @instituteforgovernment.org.uk podcast to talk Trump, Iran, Starmer, law, war and much more.
Plus: The IfG verdict of Rachel Reeves’s spring forecast
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/podcast/insi...
A quote from Jill Rutter, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government "The chancellor has resisted the temptation to use this moment to tinker with the tax system. That's the right choice given only three months have passed since the last budget. This will provide more stability for businesses and households."
Rachel Reeves has resisted the temptation to use today's spring forecast to tinker with the tax system.
@jillongovt.bsky.social says the chancellor has made the right choice.
Keep an eye on our spring forecast 2026 page for more analysis soon www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/spring-forec...
A quote from Dan Haile, Senior Economist at the Institute for Government. "The chancellor has stuck to her plan for a low-key spring forecast. The UK has been an outlier in chopping and changing fiscal policy so often, but sticking to one major fiscal event a year gives the government more time and space to make better policy decisions."
"...sticking to one major fiscal event a year gives the government more time and space to make better policy decisions."
@danhaile.bsky.social, IfG senior economist, reacts to today's 'low-key' spring forecast.
More analysis to follow soon www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/spring-forec...
The government will publish the Office for Budget Responsibility's latest economic and fiscal forecast today.
On Inside Briefing we were joined by Rupert Harrison - former chief of staff to George Osborne - to discuss the forecast.
Listen here:
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/podcast/insi...
Five reasons why today's Spring Forecast should not be a fiscal event, building on what my IfG colleagues wrote last week
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/rach...
Everyone is analysing the implications of the byelection for Keir Starmer and Labour but the most important lessons are for democracy - my latest for @instituteforgovernment.org.uk www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/gort...
Westminster is dangerously underprepared for a multi-party future.
Brilliant from @drhannahwhite.bsky.social for @instituteforgovernment.org.uk on the real lesson from the Gorton and Denton by-election.
The new cabinet secretary has a daunting set of tasks ahead, including forging a strong working relationship with the prime minister.
But Antonia Romeo can hit the ground running by taking quick decisive action on civil service reform.
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/anto...
The @instituteforgovernment.org.uk set five tasks for Chris Wormald when he became cabinet secretary
Here’s our verdict
(And what his successor should do differently)
Really enjoyed this week’s @instituteforgovernment.org.uk podcast with man-of-the-moment @pickardje.bsky.social and @drhannahwhite.bsky.social
Listen to hear Jim’s inside account of how he got such a series of mega-scoops
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Lack of planning has hit Labour’s efforts to fix public services, says thinktank.
Great summary of @instituteforgovernment.org.uk's analysis by @kiranstacey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
The first chapters of the report (on local government) were published a month ago. The NHS chapters were published today.
The Guardian article is an exclusive
Latest fascinating & comprehensive analysis from the @instituteforgovernment.org.uk team of Labour’s public services performance… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
This new @instituteforgovernment.org.uk report gives our verdict of NHS performance since Labour won the general election.
And in a week that Wes Streeting found himself in the news too.
Well worth checking out
Big pre-budget @financialtimes.com story...
Read it...
And then listen again to last week's @instituteforgovernment.org.uk budget about chancellors and the art of pitch-rolling their budget announcements.
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/podcast/insi...
Has Rachel Reeves rolled the budget pitch?
And how did former chancellors manage expectations?
Fascinating @instituteforgovernment.org.uk podcast with @stewartwood.bsky.social Giles Winn @gemmatetlow.bsky.social @jillongovt.bsky.social
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/podcast/rach...
Cross-party agreement can create political space for tax reform
It is time to take the political heat out of attempts to reform the tax system, says @gemmatetlow.bsky.social www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/cros...
Here's Amber's @instituteforgovernment.org.uk report
Which finds that the equivalent of 23,000 primary school classrooms are empty across England, the highest number since records began
(and there's loads of more fascinating data in there)
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...
