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Political appointments are sometimes framed as a 'necessary evil'. In fact, they're a vital part of how government functions. My thoughts in this week's blog 👇
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Senior Researcher @Patrick_S_King writes about the principal-agent problem at the heart of how Whitehall relates to ministers. And the value that political appointments bring as a counterweight.
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Am unconvinced by the view that the UK should see itself as a 'middling power' and have a foreign policy stance much more similar to 🇨🇭/🇩🇰 than 🇫🇷/🇩🇪. Seems like there are important, material differences that distinguish us from smaller European powers. 🧵
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Thoroughly enjoying the first few chapters of @Samfr ’s new book. His anecdotes about centre’s (lack of) capacity to manage long-term change are spot on. How would people feel about a book club to meet and informally share ideas on a semi-regular basis for overhauling the State?
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1) We are one of only two European countries with our own nuclear weapons (the other being 🇫🇷). 2) We are one of only five permanent members of the UN security council (🇫🇷 is the only other European country with this status).
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3) The Commonwealth remains an important forum for international affairs, headed by Charles III, with 56 member states (there are few global equivalents). 4) London is one of the world's truly global cities, ranking alongside NYC as one of two Alpha++ cities.
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Which is all to say: 👉How we portray the UK to the world stage is, to an extent, self-fulfilling. So we must make a strong case for the positive and distinct impact the UK can have!
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7) According to QS, the UK has 7 of Europe's top 10 universities. We are a world-leading centre of innovation, at the forefront of areas like AI, biotech and pharma.
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6) By most measures, we are the world's 6th/7th biggest economy and the 6th biggest military spender. This gives us an important role in conflicts like the war in Ukraine, which is distinct from most other European countries.
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8) We are one of the world's leading 'soft powers' - in a totally different league to most of Europe.
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5) Though there are legitimate questions about the strength of the 'special relationship' with the US, having this closeness with a great power stands the UK apart from middling European powers.
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👉It would be inappropriate to act as if we were more similar to a small European power than one with the status of 🇫🇷/🇩🇪. The differences above are all materially important factors in how we should approach our relationship with the world. Ignoring them does us a disservice.
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Sane country's simple and sane approach to pandemic preparedness.
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Could coordinate this through a WhatsApp group or similar for those interested.
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@revpdh From a major report published this week: "While in the past we tended to compare ourselves to France and Germany, our future has more in common with G20 nations like Japan and European countries like Norway and Switzerland".
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"it is still true that Britain needs to get beyond the rhetoric and thinking of itself as 'great' Britain" Do people really, honestly, think it's good foreign policy to be this self-flagellating?
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Let’s stop talking about ‘great’ Britain – and rebrand ourselves as a different sort of country | Martin Kettle
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FWIW, this is evidence that the PM's paid too little, not that the Chief of Staff is paid too much
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Sir Keir Starmer's chief of staff Sue Gray is paid more than UK PM, BBC reveals, igniting a row within government
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This is a large part of the reason why reviews and commissions don’t shift the dial. The toughest policy challenges rarely have a popular and inexpensive solution just waiting to be uncovered. Political will is the missing ingredient!
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Few things are complex. Most things are just expensive or unpopular. And so that’s where politics comes in!
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What four symbols epitomise Englishness? I'd tend to think of Big Ben/Elizabeth Tower and the bulldog as being British, not English, symbols
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Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
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Happy #StGeorgesDay 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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An under-discussed aspect of public sector pay constraint between 2010 - 2023: The pay ceiling for a special adviser in 2010? £142,668 The top pay band for a special adviser in 2023? £102,000 to £145,000 Both in nominal terms (i.e. a big real-terms reduction)
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The No.10 PPS role is far and away one of the most important CS roles - controlling access to the PM and their policy subs. Leaving it unfilled risks weakening the PM's capability and impact.
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Henry Newman
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How can No10 not have a PPS? 🙄 It’s literally the most important job (almost) no one has heard of… 1/
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Report launch eve 👀
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From @ezraklein : policymakers spend “too much time and energy imagining policies a capable government could execute and not nearly enough time imagining how to make a government capable of executing them” That concept - state capacity - is what mission govt should be all about
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In the small print of today's fiscal statement... Government will be removing the cap on civil service headcount.
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Very excited for this to be published tomorrow 👀 Prevention is now a watchword in health policy. But a serious commitment to protecting people from illness must start with getting the basics right
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Silver bullet for economic growth: install air con in every British office
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We should take SpAd pay seriously. Failing to do so will reduce the quality and diversity of SpAds, and increase the temptation to politically appoint the same people into better paid (but less suitable) roles.
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Civil Service World
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Special advisers appointed to the new Labour administration are reportedly unhappy with pay levels
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"There's a world of difference between transferring power and abdicating it". If polls are to be believed, the next government should use its majority to enact bold change: not rely on the big calls being taken by independent reviews, commissions & new public bodies.
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Polls suggest that the next Government is likely to be elected with a historic majority. Senior Researcher, @Patrick_S_King , argues that this majority and the power it brings should be used to drive through major change, rather than handed away.
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We've been doing a lot of thinking at @reformthinktank on what it would actually take to deliver missions. Short answer: you should treat them as unique endeavours, above and beyond usual priorities. Step-by-step answer: see our publication tomorrow
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"For missions to succeed, they'll have to be more than just priorities". Ahead of our latest Reimagining Whitehall paper tomorrow, Senior Researcher @Patrick_S_King , argues achieving moonshot goals will also require a moonshot approach to governance.
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Great diagnosis of some the macro challenges the UK faces. It's common to point the finger at the UK's 'tax burden' as a reason for declining competitiveness. Less discussed, as @Samfr highlights, are the growing costs imposed on public and private sector orgs by regulation.
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I have a report out today with Nesta looking at the real challenges the next government are going to face - the stuff that's too difficult for the manifestos.
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Labour have staked a lot on planning reform delivering economic growth. But questionable whether this distribution of new housing is the right one for that goal.
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Jennifer Williams
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Quite the shift in housing targets towards the north in today’s announcement:
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Looking for something to read over the Easter weekend? A 🧵 on my first report for @reformthinktank , co-authored with @SebRees1 , on how Gov. can prioritise young people’s wellbeing in the pandemic aftermath 1/
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Great to be quoted in the @FT on the latest Civil Service stat release. Stopping non-essential consultancy spending is a clear opportunity for government to think about the expertise it needs in-house - and what it'll take to attract this.
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It’s a failure of ambition that we see 150k legal jobs as “balancing out” lower productivity jobs in the public sector. We should strive to have a high productivity public sector that attracts and properly rewards the most talented and ambitious.
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The secret here is that 24-year-old lawyers earning 5x the average wage probably have 10x the average productivity. Luckily for society they're balanced out by low-productivity public sector arts grads who think they're much better at deciding how to spend that money.
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This is fascinating. I may do a blog on MOG changes mentioned here 👀 But things that stood out: 👉Opening Perm Sec roles to outsiders 👉Q of whether HMT spending function should be in No.10/Cab Off 👉Importance of a delivery function in No.10 to track progress against targets
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Jordan Urban
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The newly released Blair archives are brilliant. Here's a summary of some interesting bits. First, a pair of papers from Jonathan Powell in '97 about how Blair could get upcoming perm sec appointments right. Sue Gray is almost certain to be conducting an equivalent exercise
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Really excited to have launched @reformthinktank 's new report 'Mission control' 🚀 Missions are a useful framing for problems that involve extraordinary ambition, and a real emphasis on innovation and pace of delivery. BUT, they can't just be a political soundbite. 🧵
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A lot of ink will be spilt today on how the Chancellor has used his ~£20bn of headroom. But much more important is how government spends money day-to-day. Me in @CityAM on the importance of a sustained focus on productivity & VfM.
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How well we spend our money is just as crucial as how big our ‘fiscal headroom’ is - CityAM

Later today, the Chancellor will stand at the dispatch box to deliver his autumn statement – likely the penultimate fiscal statement before a general election, making the stakes particularly high. As...

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Sometimes national decline is marked by diplomatic crisis in the Suez. And sometimes it’s marked by mid-career research positions being compensated with dried apricots and hobnobs.
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Salary: ‘light snacks’ 🗑️
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Thrilled to see in the @FT in print this morning, write-up of Reform analysis showing structures & incentives of Whitehall are *not* set up to prioritise getting most from every £ of spending V. grateful for expert input of all who we interviewed for this & @reformthinktank team
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The number of 🇬🇧 names on this list - spanning sectors from regulation (Sarah Cardell) to AI development (Demis Hassabis), governance (Geoffrey Irving, Matt Clifford) and safety (Saffron Huang) - is a positive sign for the state of the sector.
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I’m pretty boosterish on the progress studies/“things could be different” way of thinking. But it does feel like some of the examples ignore path-dependency & the obvious historical reasons why countries have developed in different ways.
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The US eastern Seaboard has five Londons. Despite having a similar amount of land, the UK has just one.
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"It's not that difficult to get on the properly ladder." NatWest chair Sir Howard Davies tells @amolrajan people 'have to save and that's the way it always used to be'. Watch the full exchange ⬇️ #R4Today
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Excited to be going to the @instituteforgov 's event for this tomorrow evening ... & to be starting the petition for 2024 to be the productivity year 📅 As @paulkrugman said "productivity isn't everything, but in the long run it is almost everything" 1/
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National Productivity Week is taking place from 27 November - 1 December. Find out how you can get involved in events across the UK, or virtually: View all the events on our website: #productivityweek #productivetogether
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To deliver his five “missions”, Keir Starmer needs to think big about *how* they’re pursued. My comment in @CityAM 👇
Mission Government: Why Starmer must think bigger and bigger if he wants real change

Insane targets, missions CEOs and big thinking - this is the framework Starmer must adopt if he wants real change, writes Patrick King.

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Event w/ Wes Streeting this afternoon definitely lived up to expectations Fav. quote: "The worst thing we can do is to make the NHS the state. We have to be careful about not extending the realm of the NHS to pick up for the failings of the state" 👏👏 Video soon to follow!
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Thank you so much to @wesstreeting for joining us today to share Labour's vision for health & social care Packed room, great buzz, lots of brilliant questions & frank & thoughtful answers Video to follow!
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Really excited to see the first outputs from this. Evidence-based policy relies on there being strong links between the latest research - from diverse institutions - and policy development. Reform Scholars, spearheaded by @stkaye , is a great, direct way of creating these links!
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📢 Today we're announcing our inaugural cohort of Reform Scholars Our brilliant Scholars will be applying their research to key policy challenges facing the country, from AI to devolution, health to education Check them out 👇
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It's so common to hear civil servants' frustrations of the box-ticking nature of recruitment/promotion, and lack of any flexibility to attract exceptional talent Great to see @jo3hill , @ce_pickles & @sean_eke setting out practical recommendations for taking performance seriously
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Charlotte Pickles
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Delighted to have our new paper covered in @thetimes this morning High performing organisations prioritise talent & performance management. Right now Whitehall is failing to attract talent, failing to make the most of the talent it has & failing to deal with poor performers
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A real expert on what it takes to deliver ambitious things in government. We had a great time talking to @MichaelBarber9 for this project & are really grateful for his endorsement!
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@MichaelBarber9 , Fmr Head of the PM's Delivery Unit describes our report as "priority reading" for anyone hoping to pursue mission-driven government.
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Great to see dedicated ministerial leadership for the "tech and innovation" required across missions through Patrick Vallance
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@axelheitmueller “We have so much data, but we lack insights.” 👏 Prevents shift from a sickness service, to one which proactively focuses on population health. “Performance management” is synonymous with DHSC, NHSE command & control, not using data to drive better outcomes.
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Delighted to have launched the first in a series of papers @reformthinktank will be publishing, on the institutional 'mindsets' of Whitehall This time, on creating a continuous focus on efficiency I set out what this involves, in my blog for the launch:
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Best line up since Bowie at 2000 Glasto 👏 Only a few spaces left for @reformthinktank ’s flagship Whitehall conference
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Reform
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⏰ Under 2 weeks left until the Reimagining Whitehall conference! ⏰ Only a few spaces left to join our stellar cast of speakers to explore the bold but practical steps needed to build a Whitehall capable of delivering 👉Email events @reform .uk to request a space
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Great to see Labour considering Mission Boards to tie in PM sponsorship and help drive cross-govt missions. A key recommendation of our report 'Mission Control'👇
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FT UK Politics
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Labour considers largest Whitehall shake-up in decades
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Patrick King
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9 months
Really exciting news 👏 For context, we haven't had a new class of antibiotics since the late 1980s.
@guardian
The Guardian
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Scientists hail new antibiotic that can kill drug-resistant bacteria
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In future, primary care must be oriented around prevention, maximising accessibility, & better management of long-term conditions. Our report today sets out the steps needed to achieve this. With a focus on: 👩‍⚕️Workforce 🏪The primary care estate 💵Funding 🧑‍💻Tech
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Charlotte Pickles
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Big day @reformthinktank with the publication of our major new report on primary care ⭐️ Primary care should be the jewel in the NHS crown ⭐️ It is the only route to a preventative NHS ⭐️ It is about much more than the GP surgery 🧵
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Today we give you a behind the curtains look at our thinking on Whitehall reform 👀 I'll be driving forward the research stream on New Mindsets 🧠 For the Whitehall machine to deliver differently, it must first be able to think differently What does this mean? A 🧵
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Reform
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This demands action in 3⃣ areas: 1⃣ New mindsets - building a Whitehall machine that is less insular, homogenous and prone to groupthink. If Whitehall can learn to think differently, it can also deliver differently. As @_JonathanSlater , part of our Steering Group, explains 👇
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Big landmark for @reformthinktank ’s health programme tomorrow. Tune in tomorrow to hear Rosie and find out why
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Rosie Beacon
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We have a big report coming out tomorrow @reformthinktank 🏥👩‍⚕️🩺 I'll be on @TimesRadio first thing at 7 to talk about it. Tune in
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Talk about a fast conversion rate! A week on from @jo3hill @ce_pickles and @sean_eke making the case for an overhaul of performance management in Whitehall... …And the Minister name checks several of their “radical” ideas for reform
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@bt_uk @ce_pickles @JohnGlenUK @JohnGlenUK points to the "radical" recommendations made by Reform's recent report 'Making the grade' 🎓 Highlights two in particular: 👉A Mid-career faststream 👉Reforms to the way we assess candidates 2/
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Just in time for #WAAW , glad to have written a report for @reformthinktank last wk on Antimicrobial Resistance The UK is world leading in its approach to AMR, but to 'contain and control' it by 2040 - as Gov's ambitious 20-year vision commits - more progress will be needed 1/14
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Enjoyed this blog from our Policy Director @jo3hill Lots of policy diagnosis falls into familiar boxes: 👉"We focus on treatment > prevention" 👉"Our approach is too siloed" 👉"We don't involve citizens enough" Often reflecting genuine & persistent challenges...
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For our blog this week our Policy Director, @jo3hill , has tackled policy memes. Read below to find out what they are, the role they play and how they will evolve throughout 2024.
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Particular thanks to @Jingstar @KateAlvanley @ogden140 @SebRees1 @CCApharmacy @NVTweeting and others for their insight throughout the project!
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Patrick King
@Patrick_S_King
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By 2050, everyone working at DeepMind or NHS
@ftweekend
FT Weekend
@ftweekend
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'Friends who became academics, architects or civil servants have seen their salaries and status fall remorselessly,' writes @Kupersimon . 'With hindsight, we should all have gone into tech'
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Patrick King
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PISA facts of the day 1) The UK stands out globally for having lower than average variation between schools & especially good results for 1st and 2nd generation immigrants 2) We still have some way to go in closing within-school variation, which is higher than the OECD average
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Sam Freedman
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In terms of education policy here it's worth noting that our between school variation is lower than average and our within school variation is higher. That's probably what we need to focus on.
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Patrick King
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Brilliant to see external expertise brought in so quickly to lead one of govt’s missions! Something @reformthinktank made a clear case for in our ‘Mission Control’ paper (which suddenly rings a bell…)
@energygovuk
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
@energygovuk
3 months
📣 Climate and energy expert @StarkClimate has been appointed head of our new clean power Mission Control Tasked with turbocharging the shift from volatile fossil fuel markets to home-grown clean power by 2030 More:
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Too often, stagnating outcomes in public services breeds pessimism about the possibility of radically different, and better, ways of doing things Or 'zombie' policy ideas to emerge - that grip the imagination but have a weak evidence base A 🧵 against this kind of navel gazing!
@reformthinktank
Reform
@reformthinktank
1 year
In this paper, Looking Outward, we draw on evidence from 12 different case studies in 10 countries to identify lessons on how to overcome them. 3/
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Great to write for @CityAM on why clinical trials are a critical part of the answer if we’re to continue to be a world leader in the life sciences 🧪🧬
@CityAM
City A.M.
@CityAM
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✍️ The UK is leading the way in life sciences, but not in clinical trials. Bureaucracy is hampering our ability to approve new groundbreaking drugs at pace, writes @Patrick_S_King
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The next 5 weeks, we’ll be putting out a special edition of our newsletter, focused on what the General Election means for public services. I’ve written the first one on why Whitehall reform should be a priority for any incoming government.
@reformthinktank
Reform
@reformthinktank
4 months
🚨The GEek is out!🚨 The Week has transformed into a general election special edition newsletter highlighting all things public services @Patrick_S_King discusses what an incoming government needs to be able to deliver transformative services Read on...
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This wouldn't have come together without the input of a stellar cast of expert interviewees, including: @ArnottRobert , @JimBaggaley , @MichaelBarber9 , @GregClarkMP , @MLClem , @DanRCorry , @JonDavis73 , @wdeggers , @piersforster , @RGurumurthy , @DavidHalpernCBE , @claudia_harris
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Patrick King
@Patrick_S_King
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@reformthinktank has landed at the BT tower for a day of big conversations on Whitehall. We’ll be live tweeting panels on AI, innovation and a keynote from @JohnGlenUK .
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Now THIS will be a good episode
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Dwarkesh Patel
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5 months
What should I ask Tony Blair?
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Patrick King
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7 months
Alejandro Iñárritu has his work cut out for the sequel to Birdman
@David_Cameron
David Cameron
@David_Cameron
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I’ve been Foreign Secretary for 113 days. This is what we’ve done 👇
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I often wonder how far 'Treasury mindset' - particularly accusation of 'counting pennies and losing £s' - is a symptom not of a culture which is unique to UK finance ministry. But instead fiscal rules forcing HMT to focus on short term savings/debt, not long-term value creation.
@jo3hill
Joe Hill
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1/ "Treasury brain" is a symptom of bad fiscal rules & counterbalancing profligate government departments. There are many bad ideas for spending that HMT blocks. Lots of "ambitious proposals" never pay off. And when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Patrick King
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6 months
Hot take: we should also have nice places to live that aren't densely populated cities with a population of 500k+ Horses for courses
@sam_bidwell
Sam Bidwell
@sam_bidwell
6 months
These are great places to visit for a long weekend. They're also hollowed-out toy-towns, full of pensioners and students. High house prices, no job opportunities, economies reliant on tourism and subsidy. London is perhaps the only functioning bit of the British economy.
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Patrick King
@Patrick_S_King
2 years
Worrying to see in @NatCen survey today a falling # who think preventing illness should be an NHS priority It's true prevention should be a cross-cutting, not NHS-specific, goal But w/ record dissatisfaction in acute services, failure to invest upstream is part of the problem!
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Patrick King
@Patrick_S_King
11 months
Fab discussion so far on why the state can’t seem to “get things done”… 👉 Trade-off between scope of the state (things it wants to do) and impact 👉 Lack of ambition & belief in our ability to renew existing institutions and found new ones 👉 Too many veto players & processes
@civic_future
Civic Future
@civic_future
11 months
Why can’t we get stuff done? We're hosting an event exploring the key challenges facing British state capacity today on November 20 2023, 6.30-8pm at The Sekforde in London with our CEO Munira Mirza, @bryancheang_ , @jo3hill , @Sam_Dumitriu . Tickets 👇
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Patrick King
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11 months
@bryancheang_ on difficulty of sustaining a single-minded vision @jo3hill on inconsistency of policy & what this does for morale in the system @Sam_Dumitriu on state’s failure to contend with issues of diffuse benefits, concentrated losses (e.g. in the planning system)
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4 months
Good start to watching Blade Runner 2049 with my parents. “Is this a true story?” Me: “No” Them: “Well it could happen”
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@jo3hill @jo3hill banning a lunch break
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Patrick King
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5 months
Great to welcome the Minister for Cab Office to our flagship Whitehall conf! & to have his endorsement for so much of @reformthinktank ’s analysis and recent policy recommendations
@cabinetofficeuk
Cabinet Office
@cabinetofficeuk
5 months
Today, in a speech at @reformthinktank Reimagining Whitehall conference, @JohnGlenUK set out steps to improve performance management and attract talent into the Civil Service - to make sure we have the best people in place to deliver for the public
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Patrick King
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5 months
Citizens' Assemblies are sometimes touted as a way of 'breaking the deadlock' on stalemate policy issues (inability to build homes, sustainably fund social care) But what are the risks of this approach & can CAs lead to more innovative policy? My take in this week's Reform blog.
@reformthinktank
Reform
@reformthinktank
5 months
Should the public make policy? This week in the Reform blog, can Citizens' Assemblies inform better policy? And just as importantly, when *shouldn't* they be used. Read below👇
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Patrick King
@Patrick_S_King
1 year
To embed a culture of efficiency across Whitehall, we must stop seeing it as a job for finance directors, HMT spending teams, or politicians alone. Instead, there should be meaningful incentives & rewards at every level - and across roles - to do more for less. 1/
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Patrick King
@Patrick_S_King
11 months
Enjoyed speaking to @BBCCWR this morning about what the Autumn Statement means for the cost-of-living & possibility of future tax cuts 📻 You can listen here (10:38):
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Patrick King
@Patrick_S_King
11 months
Great to see this commitment in the budget yesterday 💼 And today to have @imperialcollege 's own Dr Tim Rawson publish a paper with @reformthinktank on how tech can be used to support smarter prescribing Read it here:
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Smart prescribing: harnessing technology in the fight against AMR - REFORM
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@ImperialMed
Imperial Medicine
@ImperialMed
11 months
The UK Government has committed £5 million in seed funding to support The Fleming Centre to fight #AntimicrobialResistance . The Centre – a partnership between @imperialcollege and @ImperialNHS – aims to put society at the heart of solving #AMR . #WAAW2023
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Patrick King
@Patrick_S_King
2 years
V interesting finding from our #StateoftheStateUK report👇 Runs counter to usual narrative that younger generations are inherently “high tax, high spend” Perhaps speaks to growing generational disparity in who benefits from this spend (triple lock 👀) and high marginal tax rate
@reformthinktank
Reform
@reformthinktank
2 years
🚨 NEW REPORT 🚨 Our annual State of the State report with @DeloitteUKGov is out, with our usual public poll One for the new PM & Chancellor - huge difference in views of tax and spend younger ages versus older 👇
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Patrick King
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6 months
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@HugoGye
Hugo Gye
@HugoGye
6 months
EXCLUSIVE Keir Starmer joins calls for 🇬🇧 military budget to increase to 2.5% of GDP. He tells @theipaper : "On defence spending, obviously we want to get to 2.5% as soon as resources allow that to happen." Read the full story:
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Patrick King
@Patrick_S_King
6 months
Thanks for the endorsement Caroline! Though if you’ve been reading any of our recent work, you’d know we’re not “hard free marketeers” by any stretch
@carolinejmolloy
CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social
@carolinejmolloy
6 months
It must be very hard being Reform think tank, seeing the Tony Blair Institute completely steal your mantle as bizarrely influential, wildly credulous technology lobbyists and hard free marketeers posing as centrist thinkers on public services (some staff have swapped ship ofc)
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Patrick King
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I wonder how many times bigger the inquiry response team is than the civil contingencies secretariat?
@Smyth_Chris
Chris Smyth
@Smyth_Chris
1 month
Civil service now has 280 full time staff working on responding to the Covid inquiry Total costs to taxpayer, of the inquiry itself and the government response to it, now up to £161 million
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Patrick King
@Patrick_S_King
1 year
Ah yes, the great Belgian reformer of the NHS, Sir Simon Stevin
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Patrick King
@Patrick_S_King
4 months
"Delivery isn't everything, but in the end it's almost everything". Some ideas from @reformthinktank on what needs to be in place for a government to deliver its priorities.
@reformthinktank
Reform
@reformthinktank
4 months
🚨 NEW REPORT 🚨 Today we've published 'A manifesto for delivery: 14 ideas for a better Whitehall'. This report, kindly supported by Newton, explores the barriers that stand in the way of more effective delivery and the policy ideas which could help to overcome them.
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Patrick King
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Another illustrative example of where our health system's failure to respond to crises is, in large part, the product of over-centralisation. Today @reformthinktank publishes its second report of the week - on the future of the UKHSA. A 🧵 of its findings...
@reformthinktank
Reform
@reformthinktank
1 year
🔔 NEW RESEARCH 🔔 This morning, we published ‘Health security from the ground up: 5 lessons for the future of the UKHSA’ . In this paper, we focus on the key failures in the UK’s response to COVID-19 and identify five lessons for the UKHSA 1/
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Patrick King
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@jo3hill @Sam_Dumitriu please don't tweet me in working hours
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@Patrick_S_King
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Combined Authority / District Council
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@Patrick_S_King
2 years
I started off in this role (almost exactly a year ago!) and can v much recommend to anyone interested in public policy, politics, and putting on great events with high profile speakers. We're also an alright group to work with! More details here:
@reformthinktank
Reform
@reformthinktank
2 years
🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Looking to start your career in a think tank? We're looking for a new Research and Events Assistant to help deliver our exciting new 'Reimagining the State' programme What are you waiting for? ➡️
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Patrick King
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@johnmcternan The Times reported that a permanent appointment hasn't been made and I haven't seen anything since?
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Patrick King
@Patrick_S_King
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An island nation with rich naval history, ancient castles, globally significant contributions to science and tech, and royal/imperial guard who dress funny
@danwaterfield
Dan Waterfield
@danwaterfield
3 months
A small island nation with an ageing population, crippled by a never ending recession, and ruled over by a gerontocratic elite in thrall to animist civic religion that impedes all development, engl
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Patrick King
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9 months
A really important report by my colleague @stkaye . Overcentralisation is a lose-lose. It's worse for local areas who feel micromanaged & are at the whim of Whitehall's short-termism. And it's worse for Whitehall itself - clogging up capacity & making it much less strategic.
@reformthinktank
Reform
@reformthinktank
9 months
🎆NEW REPORT🎇 We are excited to publish 'Devolve by default: Decentralisation and a redefined Whitehall', the latest report in our #ReimaginingWhitehall programme. Devolution could transform our micromanagerial Whitehall. But a radically different approach will be needed.
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Patrick King
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Andy Burnham has been a trailblazer (literally and metaphorically) for devolution. Brilliant to have him advising our work on local govt.
@reformthinktank
Reform
@reformthinktank
2 months
"To reimagine the local state we need to share experiences and learn what works – and I’m pleased to be a part of the Reform advisory group doing just that." Delighted last week to have @AndyBurnhamGM join the advisory group for our Local State programme! @MayorofGM @greatermcr
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Patrick King
@Patrick_S_King
8 months
Important to hire a cognitively diverse team
@jo3hill
Joe Hill
@jo3hill
8 months
🧵 Our latest recruit @reformthinktank is Netty, my 9mo whippet. She’s been coming to the office on Fridays. Becoming a think tank dog is a big learning curve, so I’m taking her on a tour of Whitehall…
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Patrick King
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🤯This @wellcometrust stat. Already, there are millions of annual deaths attributable to AMR Without a pipeline of new antibiotics, this "silent pandemic" will only become more severe
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