Jill Rutter
Senior Fellow
Jill's recent work
Mayoral accountability hangs on divorcing local vote from national trends
The read-across from local contests to the national polls should be dismissed.
Brexit is not done – and the UK needs to rethink how it manages its relationship with the EU
Whoever wins the election will face seven key Brexit questions.
The WASPI pension row has highlighted important lessons for policy makers
An Ombudsman report into pension age change highlights big lessons for government.
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Opening up policy making: The wisdom of four
Last week Decentralisation and Planning Minister Greg Clark invited a housebuilder, a council leader and an environmentalist to draft the new NPPF.
Was Gordon Brown's 'Economic War Council' a new model for driving the PM's agenda?
One of the constitutional innovations under Prime Minister Brown was a new sort of Cabinet Committee – the National Economic Council.
Taking the myki: Melbourne's transport policy failures show importance of good policy design
For those of us who live in London, it is hard to imagine that Melbourne's versions of 'Boris bikes' or Oyster cards could be a failure.
Defra's Animal Health & Welfare Board: Letting the outside in
Proposals today by Defra to create an Animal Health and Welfare Board represent a fascinating move to open out policy making.
Fear of piloting
A group of Lib Dem peers want to delay national roll out of elected police commissioners until they have been piloted.
Policy iPad or policy New Coke?
According to one senior civil servant, "if we built aeroplanes the way we build policy, none would ever fly".
Policy making in the real world
This report looks at the attempts to improve policy making over the past fourteen years.
Making policy better
Our report proposes a series of changes to embed better policy making into the system.
One rule for social mobility, another for sustainability
Government pronouncements on how they will ensure progress on social mobility and sustainability reveal mixed up thinking at the heart of government.
Impermanent secretaries
As Nemat Shafik hands in her keys at the Department for International Development we reflect on Whitehall changes since the election.