With elections being held in the UK, India, the US, Austria, Belgium and for the European Parliament, 2024 is going to be a huge year for politics, politicians and political parties. But could it also be another big year for populists? In recent years, …
This March, prisons in England and Wales were stretched to their limits, with only a few hundred prison spaces available in the male prison estate. 31 www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/11/early-release-prisoners-jail-alex-chalk/ The government’s emergency …
Cassia is a senior researcher in our public services team. She focuses particularly on criminal justice, leading on the police, criminal courts and prisons sections of our annual Performance Tracker. Before joining the Institute, Cassia was Strategy and …
The success of the civil service has always depended on the recruitment and retention of exceptional individuals – and this means bringing in talented outsiders with particular skills and capabilities. It is 170 years since the Northcote-Trevelyan report …
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On 2 May 2024, elections are taking place for 39 police and crime commissioners (PCCs), who set policing priorities and hold to account police forces across most of England and Wales. Why were police and crime commissioners created? The role of police and …
Trust in government and politicians continues to fall, and this parliament has seen many ethical scandals, from partygate to bullying. Over the last few years, various organisations including the IfG have called for major reforms to the way ethical …
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On 5 November 2024, up to 161 million American voters will go to the polls to vote for the next president of the United States – and will be faced with a choice between the same two candidates that stood in 2020. Joe Biden, the incumbent, will again face …
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The way a party works in opposition may not translate into government. On entering power, a tight-knit team of politicians, united by their opposition to the governing party, find themselves at the top of various Whitehall departments and separated from …
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From little black books to pet tarantulas, MPs being dragged out of ambulances to vote and tantalising promises of ministerial office, the alleged ‘dark arts’ of the government Whips’ Office have a fearsome reputation. But in reality a government whip is …
As job titles go, civil service chief operating officer and cabinet office permanent secretary is a mouthful. But Cat Little’s new job is one of the most pivotal – and challenging – roles in government. The first part – leading reform across the entire …
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Both main UK-wide parties remain committed to addressing regional inequalities. But whoever wins the next election will need to learn lessons from the successes – and failures – of the levelling up agenda, and its predecessors. This short paper summarises …
Do responsibilities for handling post-Brexit relations sit with the right departments? There is little discernible appetite in either the Conservative or Labour parties for more machinery of government changes. But there are options for responsibility …
As part of our work on public bodies, we look at the structure of individual organisations, primarily focusing on their governance and accountability arrangements. We analyse how government has worked through public bodies to deliver its objectives and how …
The UK finds itself in a moment of wider technological change. This paper sets out the developments made in data analysis and assessment at the centre over the last few years, the gaps that remain, and proposes an indicative model for filling some of those …
