📢Application deadline for our next round of Institute for Government research internships is next week! We recently spoke to current interns Finn Baker, Callum Parris, Sameer Aiyar-Majeed, Jeremy Pattison, Darwin Kim, Briony Allen and Anna Whitehead about their experiences - highlights below⬇️

1/ For Institute for Government’s latest report, we gathered data on how often regulators appear before select committees - nearly a third of the regulators we identified have not been seen by a committee since December 2019. 🧵

Great summary of some of the challenges deepfakes pose. The cat and mouse dynamics of both creation and proliferation.

Great upcoming event Bennett Institute for Public Policy on the impact of AI on elections, in both the UK and beyond!

The government's working majority continues to come under sustained pressure, down 38 votes from GE 2019 after the suspension of Mark Menzies

It's excellent to see so many people signed up to this event - we're full for in person sign ups but you can still register to watch online - join us at lunch for a fantastic panel on all things polling and political strategy!
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A great summery by Ben Paxton of some of the key lessons from the excellent preparing for power podcast series. If you’ve missed it, you can find the whole series here.

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EVENT: Less than a year out from an election, the significance of opinion polls in shaping political strategy is increasingly prominent. But it can be a confusing landscape.

📅 Join us and UK in a Changing Europe on Tuesday 16 April

Register here: instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/general-…

Alongside promises to broaden & deepen devo, Labour committed to create an “active centre” of government setting national policy in partnership with local leaders.
Thomas Pope and I looked at the role of the centre in this Institute for Government report👇1/5
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What are citizens' assemblies and how do they work?

Our latest explainer from Dr Rebecca McKee and jack pannell takes a closer look at the process, deliberative engagement and how citizens' assemblies have been used in the UK and abroad instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/citi…

Our new Institute for Government explainer on citizens' assemblies from jack pannell and I with some nifty graphics (thanks Melissa Ittoo) for anyone who wants to know how they work, where they've been used and what people have said about them.

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I personally love that they've gone with a bisexual St George's cross.

2023 hottest year on record and changes accelerating - govt need to start taking climate adaptation and resilience more seriously

Some suggestions for how to make that happen in new Institute for Government report from me and Jill Rutter

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PSA:

To have election on 2 May you have to dissolve Parliament on 26 March.

To have even a v rushed wash up of legislation and other business that means announcing the election in the early stages of next week.

So basically in a week’s time we can stop debating it