Finn Baker
Research Assistant
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Whitehall Monitor 2024: Conclusion
The key lessons to take from Whitehall Monitor 2024.
Whitehall Monitor 2024: Part 2
Recommendations for civil service reform covering the workforce, ministers, the centre of government, policy making, digital and AI, and resilience.
Whitehall Monitor 2024: Part 1
Analysis of how the civil service continued to change in 2023 - including its size, structure, turnover and budgets.
Whitehall Monitor 2024: Foreword
Introducing the analysis in Whitehall Monitor 2024.
Rishi Sunak’s reshuffle should be the last big one before the election
A period of stability in the government ranks is needed.
Whips: what is their role?
Whips are MPs and peers affiliated to a political party appointed to ensure their party colleagues vote according to the leader’s agenda.
Cabinet reshuffle – November 2023
The IfG team analyses all the latest ministerial moves as Rishi Sunak reshuffles his Cabinet and David Cameron makes a return to frontline politics.
By-elections since the 2019 general election
There have been more by-elections in the 2019 parliament than any in recent times.
Maternity leave for ministers
Can ministers take maternity leave?
Parliamentary lobby
The term ‘lobby’ is used to describe the group of journalists who cover political events in the UK.