Keir Starmer has said that it “will require nothing less than the complete rewiring of the British state to deliver bold and ambitious long-term reforms”. 📺Alex Thomas discusses what that might mean and how Chris Wormald can meet that challenge? instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/new-cabi…

Ahead of Keir Starmer’s big Plan for Change speech tomorrow, here’s why it gets a cautious welcome from Institute for Government 👇

Entertaining to be quoted in this

Not that complicated by the standards of most diagrams in government! (Useful to put them down like this though)

Britain’s civil service, which employs half a million people, is both demoralised and in need of radical reform econ.st/3VoQIA0 👇

Thoughts on today’s Pat McFadden speech - Nehal Davison and me instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/pat-mc…

I agree with Henry Newman

Overall looks like a good move - slimming down & refocusing the Cabinet Office. Chimes with the critique in our Centre Commission - though we’d go further! The “odds and ends” are v important and must be done well, but separating them out is worth it for a more effective centre

PODCAST 🎙️ Appetite for disruption @jesstud.bsky.social joins Hannah White Alex Thomas Thomas Pope to discuss Pat McFadden's public sector plans. Plus: Rachel Reeves hunt for efficiency savings and @cassia_rowland discusses fixing the prisons crisis instituteforgovernment.org.uk/podcast/inside…

🧵Always enjoy reading Institute for Government's Whitehall Monitor. All change in Westminster this year, but in Whitehall? Not so much. It just goes to show there's nothing new under the sun. Some things which struck me:

Whitehall Monitor 2025, our annual data-driven stocktake of the civil service, is out today. It examines the civil service that Starmer’s government inherited – and how Labour’s mission-led approach fits in with Whitehall’s ways of working instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/wh…