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An archive of recent Institute for Government press releases and media mentions.
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IfG's Annual Whitehall Stocktake: The civil service needs to change to deliver Labour's missions
Published today, Whitehall Monitor 2025 examines the civil service that Keir Starmer’s government inherited after the July 2024 election.
How the government can take control of the UK's asylum system
The government must exert its authority over the whole asylum system and avoid short-sighted measures aimed at conjuring an illusion of control.
Why new public bodies fail – and 10 lessons for the government to get it right
10 practical lessons from past experience to help ministers, senior civil servants and public body leaders to design and lead new bodies successfully.
Labour's missions need a reformed spending review process
The approach taken in recent spending reviews is not up to the job of achieving Labour’s missions, warns a new Institute for Government report.
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Seven steps to restore trust in government ethics
Trust in politics, and in the people and institutions of public life in the UK, is at an all-time low.
Starmer's cautious pitch for UK power ducks hard economic choices
Gemma Tetlow, IfG chief economist, comments in Bloomberg on the credibility of the economic pledges made by Labour in their manifesto.
Could a Labour government break Britain’s planning deadlock?
Researcher Sophie Metcalfe comments in the FT on housing and planning.
General election 2024: Gemma Tetlow on the Today programme, BBC Radio 4
Gemma Tetlow appears on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 as the main political parties rule out increasing any of the main taxes.
Next government must urgently modernise old and cramped NHS GP buildings
GPs and the rest of the general practice workforce are working in buildings that are often too cramped, old and inflexible for a modern health service
Incoming ministers ‘will face UK public services on brink of collapse’
The Guardian reports on the findings of our recent insight paper 'The precarious state of the state'
Revealed: The true scale and severity of the problems facing the next government
To provide a credible vision for the country, the parties’ manifestos must set out a plan to address the challenges the country is facing.
Next government faces difficult devolution questions
Rebecca McKee and Matthew Fright write in LGC that the next government will need to back up big commitments on English devolution with action.
General election 2024: Five things civil servants should be doing before the election – and just after it
Civil Service World highlights the recent IfG webinar discussing how civil servants should navigate an election campaign.
More or Less: UK growth, prisons and Swiftonomics
Senior researcher Cassia Rowlands speaks to BBC Radio 4's More or Less programme about the current challenges facing the UK's prison system.