Hannah Keenan
Associate Director
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A Downing Street think tank would not make No.10 strategic
Is Morgan McSweeney right to claim that it is impossible for No.10 to think big?
A collaborative taskforce can help a government deliver its priorities
Andy Burnham and Louise Haigh have an uphill battle to overcome taskforce scepticism.
Andy Burnham must avoid repeating Keir Starmer’s failed ‘civil service reset’
Platitudes and generalisms serve no one: we need an honest conversation about trust.
Andy Burnham needs to fix a weakened Foreign Office
A Foreign Office in turmoil cannot deliver the prime minister’s foreign policy priorities.
No.10 North: Burnham needs to be clear-eyed about the purpose of his Manchester office
An overwhelmed 10 Downing Street could be improved by creating No.10 North.
Andy Burnham must sort out the centre of government on day one
A weak No.10 and ineffective Cabinet Office require urgent attention
When trust is lost: Making sense of the damaged relationship between ministers and civil servants
Ministers have lost trust in the civil service: that is damaging.
Brexit at 10: The civil service
Hannah Keenan looks back at being part of the ‘Brexit cohort’.
Danny Kruger will only fix the centre of government if he works out why it’s broken
Reform UK are yet to understand the complex realities of power inside government.
Government is right to start tackling the knotty issue of civil service pay
Performance-related pay progression for senior officials is a good, if limited, move.