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Expert Factor: Policy Festival 2024 Special
In this special recording for this year’s Policy Festival, Hannah, Anand and Paul explore how policy is made (and could be made better).
Gray goes out of fashion
More in Common’s Luke Tryl joins the podcast to explore the Downing Street job moves and what voters want this government to get on and deal with.
Lessons from past policy making successes: workers’ rights
What the government can learn from the National Minimum Wage for its Employment Rights Bill.
2024 Conservative Party leadership contest
The Conservative Party leadership election has begun.
How does the OBR estimate the demand impact of government policies?
The role of fiscal multipliers in economic forecasting.
Sue Gray’s departure is not a quick fix for the centre of government
It is time for the prime minister to radically reform the centre of government.
Parliament returns: Will the government take scrutiny seriously?
Labour's promise of a new approach to parliamentary scrutiny is about to be tested.
Has the Conservative Party worked out why it lost the general election?
Hannah, Paul and Anand are in Birmingham to explore what the Conservative Party Conference tells us about how the party might govern differently.
How can ministers bring external support into departments?
There are other individuals, beside officials, who can be brought in to help ministers.
Keir Starmer’s European reset so far is style over substance
The government will soon need to set out what exactly it wants from EU/UK relations.