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The 'S' Factors: Lessons from IfG's policy success reunions

This report looks at what we can learn from policy successes.

Jill Rutter Sam Sims Edward Marshall

This report looks at what we can learn from policy successes. It focuses on six examples: privatisation, the introduction of the national minimum wage, Scottish devolution, the ban on smoking in public places, pensions reform and the Climate Change Act.

Publisher
Institute for Government

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