Was Gordon Brown's 'Economic War Council' a new model for driving the PM's agenda?
One of the constitutional innovations under Prime Minister Brown was a new sort of Cabinet Committee – the National Economic Council.
One of the constitutional innovations under Prime Minister Brown was a new sort of Cabinet Committee – the National Economic Council. In an article for Political Quarterly (PDF, 76kb) former Brown adviser Dan Corry argues that this was effective in getting Whitehall into action on the recession.