Doing GOD?: Gus O’Donnell and better policy making
Alastair Campbell famously told Tony Blair 'we don’t do God'. But the civil service’s own GOD – former cabinet secretary Lord O’Donnell – is offering his policy gospel in the shape of 10 policy making commandments. We compared his prescriptions with IFG’s policy fundamentals and looked at how far the civil service – under Lord O’Donnell – put in place the steps to enable civil servants to ascend to 'public service heaven'.