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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

6 months

This is a poor decision. You can protect pensioner incomes in more equitable and affordable ways. At some point one of the major parties is going to have to be brave enough to invest in the future generations of the UK. Guess not yet.

Hugo Gye

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6 months

NEW @theipaper Labour set to commit to triple lock in its election manifesto Final document not yet written but insiders say the party will stand by its previous commitment on the state pension Story:

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

5 years

What does this even mean? Nationalising GPs? And pharmacies? What about facilities management? Or tech? Will consultants be banned from doing private work?

The Guardian

@guardian

5 years

Labour promises to remove all traces of privatisation from NHS

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

4 years

The problem is, the trade off isn’t as simple as health vs economy. Prioritising covid-related health has sidelined non-covid health, mental health is deteriorating, recessions mean poorer health for many... Gov needs be transparent w/ the public about these complex trade offs

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@benatipsos

4 years

Public remains VERY cautious. Despite massive recession they say public health more important than the economy by 53% to 11%.

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

4 years

Enough of the 'A-Levels' don't matter chat. They do, in loads of jobs. And yes, there may be a handful of 'I failed my exams & am now a multi-milionaire' examples, but most young people, particularly from disadvantaged backgrounds, need the best results they can get. This matters

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

5 years

Shame about the slightly clickbait-y headline. This is a thoughtful reform proposed by @DavidGauke , designed to drive down reoffending. 👏

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

6 years

'Acknowledging that a person is male or female is neither an insult or an opinion – it is a fact' – @MeghanEMurphy brilliantly takes apart NYC's new 'non-binary' birth certificates

Gender preference has no place on a birth certificate

New York's new 'non-binary' documents ignore the reality of biological sex

unherd.com

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

3 years

1 in 5 under 35s are finding WFH ‘very challenging’ vs c.1 in 17 over 35s People starting out on careers need the office, because they need to observe more experienced workers. It’s about performance. Delighted to write this for @NewStatesman

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

2 months

My goodness me this is *bang on* from my brilliant colleague @Patrick_S_King Politicians are elected to make decisions, not duck them by setting up reviews & quangos Decisions, accountable to the people - that’s the job.

Winning power to lose it - REFORM

To govern is to choose. Yet parties’ manifestoes were just as revealing for what they didn’t say as what they did, with many questions left to be answered by future reviews and public commissions....

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

1 year

LOVE @jstockwood ’s description of himself as a curious grafter Why buy Grimsby FC? I looked in to my soul a bit & asked what I could do. Grimsby was part of my identity, I wanted to help rebuild its institutions, to create a new story by building community infrastructure ❤️

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

5 years

A beautifully written and essential read from @PaulEmbery for @unherd . Both Left & Right are paying the price for thinking these communities didn’t matter. “We should feel a sense of shame for having abandoned these places”

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

4 years

Note to self. Work on poker face 😂

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

3 years

Inflation & uprating, a 🧵 Occasionally, issues that are mostly ignored 'cos they seem dull & technical become mainstream relevant With inflation at its highest rate for 30yrs, benefit uprating has hit that sweet point… & yet we're not really talking about it So humour me…

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

5 years

Super excited to be (re)joining Reform as Director. Tough act to follow in @andrewhaldenby but looking forward to continuing the campaign for public service reform!

Reform

@reformthinktank

5 years

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT. With a very heavy heart today we’re announcing that we'll be saying goodbye to @andrewhaldenby as Reform’s Director. But we’re excited to welcome @ce_pickles as our Director from 23 April 2019! More details here:

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

4 years

THIS. 100% THIS from @DavidGauke 👇 Most public services have MASSIVE maintenance backlogs (including £6bn+ in NHS ) Not only would prioritising these create jobs NOW, but also improve public services

David Gauke

@DavidGauke

4 years

All sides presenting infrastructure projects as an answer for the immediate recovery plan. Long term this is true but there isn't the capacity to do much more in the short term. You can & should spend quickly on things like maintenance (e.g. prisons, courts, schools and roads)./2

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

4 months

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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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

6 months

Eek! This I quite the company to be amongst. So honoured to be named in this year's 100 Women in Westminster "developing fresh thinking, and challenging a status quo that needs to adapt" is *exactly* what we at @reformthinktank do #WiW100 @TheHouseMag

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

4 years

This by ⁦ @matthewsyed ⁩ is essential reading. Eroding personal agency is dangerous. Yes we need gov interventions to support those at a disadvantage but we must also look to ourselves to solve our problems 👏👏👏 Such a powerful read 👇

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

4 years

The call for everyone who can work from home to do so for up to 6 months will have far-reaching consequences. I’m sure the Gov has assessed the trade-offs, but I’m worried... (& yes, I know the aim is to stop the spread) 1/

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

4 years

V disappointing decision by @ElectoralCommUK But @reformthinktank has long championed geuninely reformist policies, & that's not about to change Our work will continue to be ✅ evidence-led ✅ politically independent ✅ focused on transforming lives

Nigel Farage's Brexit Party officially changes its name

It will be known as Reform UK - despite objections from a think tank with a similar title.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

7 years

. @unherd polling- 77% Brits think news politically biased, 54% say journos don't really understand people like them

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

6 years

I talked tax with @PJTheEconomist – the absurdity of taxing earned income more heavily than unearned, incentivising poor business practice & screwing the working age... I may be a geek, but I think it's worth a listen!

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

2 years

This from @jimmcmanusph is bang on the money (literally!) Must read for a former Health Sec now Chancellor "Clinical interventions are by no means the only – or even the greatest – producer of health which stops people needing public services"

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

4 years

The Brexit Party's plan to change its name to Reform UK is confusing voters who are mistakenly emailing us ( @ElectoralCommUK ) But occassionally you get one that makes you smile. The 'fragrant' Charlotte Pickles would indeed like to protect @reformthinktank 's reputation 😀

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

1 year

With a pretty broad consensus on what needs to change, why is Whitehall reform so hard? We @reformthinktank asked 2 former cab secs, 10 former perm secs, 6 former cab ministers & 9 former senior officials & advisers Read what they said 👇 1/

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

5 years

Giles is brilliant. If you’re looking for a new listen for 2020 you can’t go wrong tuning into @unherd ’s Confessions

Giles Fraser

@giles_fraser

5 years

Looking for a new podcast to follow? Check out @unherd Confessions. In depth + personal with clever interesting people: @wmarybeard @yhazony @andrewdoyle_com @sullydish @Elif_Safak @Fox_Claire @Scruton_Quotes @PatrickDeneen @MarcusduSautoy + loads more.

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

5 years

We're not 'soft' on crime - UK has highest prison pop'n in Western Europe - Sentences have increased signif. in past decade - Higher incarceration rates do not mean lower crime Thanks to @RMCunliffe @CityAM for opportunity to point this out!

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

1 year

What an absolute joy to host @Jacqui_Smith1 and @AmberRuddUK to talk about their time as Home Secretary & the role of the Home Office. Serious topics, discussed with warmth & humour A total privilege.

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

6 years

Capitalism is broken - here are 9 reasons from @michaelujacobs 's & @MazzucatoM 's book that prove it. @unherd podcast of my in-depth conversation with Michael on how to fix it is out Friday

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

6 years

Brilliant, blistering read for @unherd from @JonCruddas_1 on “the crisis in the character of work that consumes many of our communities – physically festering miles from where the liberal technocracy resides”

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

5 years

Excited to be joining #politicslive this lunchtime. Good to be covering such neutral topics on my first outing!

Rob Burley

@RobBurl

5 years

Coming at 1215 on BBC2 ⁦ @Jo_Coburn ⁩ with ⁦ @stellacreasy ⁩ ⁦ @JohnnyMercerUK ⁩ ⁦ @ce_pickles ⁩ ⁦ @sunraysunray ⁩ and Anthony Beevor. Expect Trump, D-Day and veterans. #politicslive

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

5 years

Fascinating new @YouGov polling. Lot of chat over recent years about redundancy of political categorisations Left & Right. This polling confirms it. As @GoodwinMJ has repeatedly pointed out, social conservative/economic interventionist is the gap...

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

4 years

So this is happening this evening. Thank goodness my first appearance on Any Questions? is during a slow news week 😬

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

6 years

Brilliant read from @mccartney_jenny on why class is the elephant in the diversity room

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

4 years

We're flattered, but we think one is enough 👇

Home - REFORM

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Reform

@reformthinktank

4 years

The @brexitparty_uk have applied to change their name to 'Reform UK'. This is causing confusion. We're asking them to think again. We've written to @Nigel_Farage and the @ElectoralCommUK setting out our concerns. Details here:

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

10 months

THIS is what the Inquiry should be focusing on Gov'nt, in the broadest sense, was not prepared despite having pandemic as no1 risk The CCS was woefully undermanned & under-resourced, & crucially, *did not see its role as ensuring preparedness* 1/

Farrukh

@implausibleblog

10 months

Hugo Keith, "You know, and you were the National Security Adviser. That a Tier 1 Risk is a pandemic causing a reasonable worse case scenario of 820,000 deaths. Government knew this was the worst risk. Why weren't they ready?" Mark Sedwill, "They didn't have the capacity" HK,

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

5 years

Niche issue here, but spare a thought for all us think tankers with ministerial events booked in over the coming weeks... 🤦‍♀️

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

10 months

THIS 👇 I remember well the tens of people getting copied in to emails & the layers of pointless clearance at DWP Imagine if the civil service trusted people to do their jobs, had regular normal place of work sign off, and freed up people's time to do actual value add tasks 🤯

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

2 years

I really can’t stress enough how challenging the next few years are going to be for public services - current dept’al settlements do not factor in 11% inflation, war, spiking covid cases… &, see OBR data this week, long-term trajectory compl unstustainable (debt 267% GDP) 1/

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

5 years

"A soft, intermittent thudding sound becomes apparent, the sound of Treasury officials’ heads gently banging on desks"- Love this image from @PJTheEconomist . The Tories are destroying their reputation for fiscal prudence. Head hits table.

Promises, promises: Tory leadership candidates are horrifying Whitehall | Institute for Fiscal...

Few things matter more than clarity over fiscal and economic strategy. We really should know a little more about where our potential future leaders stand on them.

ifs.org.uk

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

3 months

Reform team breakfast, with some special alumni guests, this morning. Several people on leave, but the best way to start a Friday! ☕️🥐🥯

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

4 years

UC (& TC) uplift.. We’re back to the perennial HMT v DWP fight HMT’s objective: sound public finances DWP objective: alleviate hardship Having lived through it as a DWP advisor during Coalition it’s all rather déjà vu But here’s why it’s different to 2010 & why HMT's wrong 1/

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

6 years

Tip-top read from @PaulEmbery today for @unherd – no, Britain is not full of fascists & racists, & we debase those words in claiming it

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

5 years

This is really important. Latest patient survey data shows a third of people can't get GP app'nt on day they want one, and more than 80% are not aware of out of hours services If you want to reduce flows into A&E, & hence waiting times, INVEST IN A MODERN PRIMARY CARE SYSTEM

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@reformthinktank

5 years

“ @claumartinezv , health policy lead at the Reform think-tank, said it was “ridiculous that only 6 per cent” of Mr Johnson’s planned funding boost was earmarked for primary care.” @bethanstaton

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

4 years

Excellent piece from @soniasodha “Opposition politicians, doctors’ unions and presidents are all people who should know better” This is so, so important #mustread 👇

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

2 years

Today is the culmination of months of work developing our new @reformthinktank strategy & I couldn't be prouder of my team & what we're launching. Firstly, Reform has always led the fight for better, smarter, value for money public services - we'll still be doing that BUT... 1/

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

6 years

Great read from @henryolsenEPPC to launch @unherd #flyover week. Trump won because he took seriously those the establishment disdained

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

2 years

Rumour is no additional cost-of-living support at Spring Statement Yet Chancellor could gain £3bn from rising fuel costs- least he shd do is recycle this to help low income families ...& the cost of uprating benefits and pension credit by 6% is £3bn!

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

6 years

#mustread from @J_Bloodworth – Jeff Bezos' philanthropy should be seen for what it is: ego-driven, brand crisis management by an obscenely wealthy tax-dodger whose company exploits its workers

Bezos and his offensive, self-serving philanthropy

A $2 billion charitable fund won't help Amazon's exploited workers

unherd.com

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

7 years

Brilliant piece. Everyone should read "Women Aren't Nags—We're Just Fed Up" via @harpersbazaarus

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

4 years

Polling last week from @YouGov found 51% of businesses expect to lay off furloughed staff when scheme ends (a third don't) Moving to 1m will help, but Gov must urgently announce plans for large scale empl & training support backed by serious invest'nt

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

4 months

🚀 NEW REPORT 🚀 Labour has pledged to deliver 'Mission Government' But what does that *actually* mean, & how would you *actually* do it? 'Mission control' answers just that 🧵

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

10 months

It's been a delight to work with the lovely Amy to get her paper out And here she is giving a taster of what's in it...

Reform

@reformthinktank

10 months

Former civil servant @GandonAmy interviewed 50 current and recent Whitehall civil servants 📹 Here she gives her three top takeaways from today's report

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

4 years

We need to talk about welfare... I can't tell you how much I am looking forward to chatting to these two former Secretary of States for Work & Pensions about whether we need to rethink our welfare state [spoiler: I think we do]

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

2 years

This is so important from @ukcivilservant . It's easy to lay the blame for gov failings at the feet of ministers, but at best that's only half the answer. The civil service itself has also shown a failure of governance & leadership as this piece shows...

A mounting crisis? A survey and summary of reports into the senior civil service - The Constitution...

Former senior civil servant Martin Stanley surveys a number of recent reports into civil service failings.

consoc.org.uk

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

3 years

I don't think this is surprising. Young people are likely to be earning low wages and paying v high housing costs. This should be a massive red flag for those who think social care should be entirely funded through increases in general taxation #intergenerationalunfairness

James Kanagasooriam

@JamesKanag

3 years

Important work from @RedfieldWilton on attitudes on tax by age. One of the paradoxes of British politics is that the young have moved sharply to the right on economics and left at the ballot box, and older voters the opposite. How does this happen? Because culture is still king.

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

3 years

This briefing from @jrf_uk on unaffordable private rents helps explain why so many low-income families struggle ➡️ almost 1m paying rents they can't afford ➡️ 86% in (AHC) poverty ➡️ 'affordable rent' housing would be affordable to just 25% of these families 1/

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

4 months

Reformers assemble 😍 Team are ready for our big Reimagining Conference today at the iconic BT Tower

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

6 months

Really powerful to hear @CMO_England talk about societal desire to prioritise quality over quantity at end of life - says not were many clinicians are 👏👏👏 Says need honest convo So so important… end of life care does not have to mean medical intervention #NTSummit

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

10 months

The @reformthinktank team are absolutely smashing it! 🔥 Y'day: publication on reforming Whitehall 🔥 Today: 'in conversation' with Lord Maude AND publication of APPG report on levelling up 🔥 Tomorrow: ANOTHER publication 🔥 Monday: ANOTHER publication What a team 🤩

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

1 year

Love to see the @BBCNews picking up our paper on why Whitehall reform is so hard May seem a nerdy topic, but how well Whitehall functions impacts us all 👇

'Eye rolling' civil service leaders block reform, report says

Senior civil servants react negatively to change proposals, according to a new report.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

5 years

We’ve arrived for #LabourConference2019 . Rainy and grey but who doesn’t love to be beside the seaside 🙌 @LukeHeselwood @William43272204

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

5 years

OK. Deep breath. Evidence that longer sentences deter criminals is weak (not surprising given offenders tend to value short-term over long-term) Evidence that increasing severity of punishment deters crime is weak (in fact prison can exacerbate recidivism) 1/..

Boris Johnson

@BorisJohnson

5 years

I want the criminals to be afraid, not the public.

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

4 years

🚨 Ppl on lower incomes will struggle: heating your home in Winter is not cheap, just because you’re an office worker doesn’t make you well paid. Not all businesses will be able to afford to cover this cost as well as pay for unused offices & deal with lower consumer demand. 3/

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

5 years

Really enjoyed discussing actual - whisper it - policy @LBC with my fellow think tankers y'day @pollymackenzie @TomKibasi @Will_Tanner - thanks to @IainDale for the opportunity #wonkfest

Reform

@reformthinktank

5 years

The👏NHS👏isn’t 👏just👏about 👏hospitals👏

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

9 months

Nice quiet day to be doing BBC Politics Live... 🤦‍♀️

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

10 months

Making the transition from team to alumni. Gutted to see this legend leave. @SebRees1 you will be missed

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

7 years

Spot on @thetimes diversity in business matters, so much untapped talent #socialmobilityEI

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

7 years

An abundance of cheap labour is limiting productivity growth, via @unherd

How cheap labour undermines economic productivity

VoxEU has a fascinating, if depressing, analysis of the long-term decline of growth across the developed world. The three authors – Antonin Bergeaud

unherd.com

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

4 months

Been massively struck by how many former & current civil servants have been in touch to say they agree with our analysis of performance management in Whitehall. Huge frustration in particular re failure to tackle poor performers Just one example from an email we received 🙏

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

4 years

Great to see @tonywilsonIES making the case for IMMEDIATE gov action to put in place empl support for increasing numbers of unemployed Gov was impressive with their immediate response, but in danger of undermining that by delaying phase 2 1/

Clock starts ticking on UK coronavirus jobs scheme

More help urged for workers as furlough scheme is wound down

www.ft.com

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

1 year

Summer picnic for the @reformthinktank team 😍

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

5 years

Do you want to *look like* you're being tough on crime, or *actually be* tough on crime @BorisJohnson ? Cost per prison place £26k Smarter spending, following the evidence, can cut crime - knee-jerk spending splurges won't

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

7 years

Great to see extract of @J_Bloodworth new book in @thetimes today. #mustread on the grueling conditions in an Amazon warehouse

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

4 years

It’s all a bit grim this lockdown 3.0, so to make me smile my amazing sis has made me public service biscuits! ❤️ I give you cops & robbers cookies... Made you smile right?

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

7 years

Too big to jail, too rich to fail...Part 2 in my 3 part @unherd series on the challenges facing capitalism

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

3 years

Great to see the SR priority outcomes & metrics doc, but concerned that DWP poverty measure is *absolute* poverty *before* housing cost

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

5 years

Thank you so much to our amazing panellists at last night's @reformthinktank 'How to win a general election' event - Sir John Curtice, @PippaCrerar @benatipsosmori @Madz_Grant Fantastic feedback from all who attended 👏

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

5 years

This is madness. Reform it sure, make it more generous, remove some of the conditionality if you want, but don’t scrap it. The principle of a single, simplified system is good- which is why it had bipartisan support. Claimants needs stability, not yet more change

Ben Gartside

@BenGartside

5 years

SCOOP: Labour are set to soon announce plans to scrap Universal Credit in the coming weeks

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

5 years

Not a bad way to spend the afternoon 👌 #Ashes2019 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

22 days

High pay is a good thing when it secures high value skills to drive productivity, innovation &, ultimately, better outcomes for citizens We shd be *very* comfortable with paying for top talent in gov The flip side is we also need to be comfortable with cutting poor performers

Patrick King

@Patrick_S_King

22 days

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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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

4 years

Lots of chat about @hmtreasury phasing out furlough scheme by cutting % of salary covered. On surface makes sense... But this is way too blunt a tool. Clearly the scheme cannot go on indefinitely. & shouldn’t. But a more nuanced phasing is needed. 1/

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

5 years

Enjoying The Best of @MattCartoonist 2019. These 2 corkers fairly sum up the year...

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

3 years

So I guess I have to accept this is actually happening then... Ele, it has been an absolute privelege to work with you. Your energy, intelligence, unbelievable work ethic & compassion are unparalleled 👊 Thank you for being such an inspiration 🙏 @NHSX you're incredibly lucky

Ele H

@EleHrwch

3 years

1/3 This feels so weird to write...but after 5 years+ @reformthinktank today is my last day. I will be joining the AI Lab @NHSX at the end of the month (very exciting!). I am so grateful to @ce_pickles & @andrewhaldenby for all of the opportunities they have granted me.

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Charlotte Pickles

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2 years

Think about this quite a lot - how different would public services look if we remembered the system isn’t important, the individual is Great to speak @Demos this eve to (belatedly) launch their new paper on a universal work service

Demos

@Demos

2 years

. @ce_pickles : "The system is designing for the system. It's not designing for the individuals it's supposed to serve. If you were thinking about the individuals, this hoarding of power would not be the answer."

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

6 years

This by @PaulEmbery should be compulsory reading for every politician & pundit. Beautifully put and so, so true

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

3 years

Feels like a good day to give this another running… We need a sustainable & intergenerationally fair funding model for social care The suggested NI increase is not that

The New Statesman

@NewStatesman

3 years

When one in five pensioner households are now millionaires, it is immoral to fund social care through general taxation, writes @ce_pickles .

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

1 year

We are good to go! Excited for our conference at Manchester’s People’s History Museum 🙌

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

27 days

Unpopular opinion - ministers should be able to bring people in they think can make a sizeable difference in delivering their priorities. These can be *political* appointments to *non-political* roles. 1/

Andrew Griffith MP

@griffitha

28 days

A 🌹supporter parachuted in to be a senior DG in the Civil Service without an open appointment process. Where are the Perm Sec, the @SciTechgovuk NEDs, the @instituteforgov or the Cabinet Office Ethics team on this? Sue Gray would never have let this happen under previous

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

2 years

Delighted to have launched next part of @reformthinktank new strategy - Reimagining health - with open letter from 10 former health ministers "welcoming" programme & calling for "urgent rethink"

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

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I'm a week late, but I've just read Lord Willetts' Independent Review of @SciTechgovuk business cases & it is a cracking read. Seriously. It's just 22 pages (+ a summary list of the recomm'ns) but in the problem of DSIT business cases is a microcosm of Whitehall 1/

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

3 years

Unemployment to peak 5.2%, remarkable outcome given economic hit. Credit where credit is due: Gov action made a massive difference #Budget21

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

5 years

Think tanks are awesome places to work & @reformthinktank is recruiting We're looking for... 👉 Researchers & Senior Researchers 👉 a Head of Events & Partnerships & if the prospect of shaping the debate on public services isn't enough, check out these #teambreakfast offerings

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

2 years

Well this is exciting- @stkaye is joining the @reformthinktank team to help us shape a big new policy agenda 🎉 At Reform we've been thinking about what the past decade, bookended by crises, has taught us about the State Our conclusion: it's not fit for purpose 1/

Simon Kaye

@stkaye

2 years

🚨Personal update time!🚨 (yes, I know, sorry) This month I will be leaving @wearenewlocal to join @reformthinktank as Policy Director. It's an unbelievably exciting opportunity. I will help build the team and contribute to the design and direction of a big new research agenda.

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

7 years

This week at @unherd - a spotlight on Western capitalism's ailments... here's a starter for 7 from @montie

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

1 year

And that’s a wrap - thank you so much to everyone who spoke and attended today #localstate This team 😍

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

5 years

Fantastic evening with @reformthinktank friends. Great food. Super speaker. Thanks so much to all who came, and to the brilliant Reform team 👏

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

2 years

So I know you're all a bit distracted by the news that a former Reformer is now PM ...but that's not the only big Reform news this week🥁... we're getting ready to launch our new strategy and I AM SUPER EXCITED Coming very soon 👇

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

4 years

"Even as other capital has crumbled, the stock of social capital has risen, acting as a countercyclical stabiliser across communities." We need to invest in "the institutional immune system that is our social sector" Love this from Andy Haldane 👏

Reweaving the social fabric after the crisis

The lesson is to better recognise all the paid and unpaid contributions citizens make

www.ft.com

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Charlotte Pickles

@ce_pickles

10 months

This is such a crucial point Whitehall has big problems that are limiting its impact in deeply worrying ways But many civil servants share those frustrations & want reform We need those ppl to drive change- generalising them as cr*p or not caring is counterproductive 1/

Jacqui Smith

@Jacqui_Smith1

10 months

@jamespriceglos James - isn’t it possible to critique a policy without such a sweeping (and wrong in my experience) generalisation about DfE civil servants. Glad to hear a very different perspective from @GandonAmy on @BBCr4today as part of @reformthinktank Reimagining Whitehall project.

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