Rhys Clyne
Associate Director
Rhys's recent work
Power with purpose: Final report of the Commission on the Centre of Government
Why the centre of government has failed successive prime ministers – and seven recommendations for radical reform.
Treasury ‘orthodoxy’
The Treasury wields too much influence across government and dominates strategic thinking at the centre.
Whitehall Monitor 2024: Methodology
The methodology underpinning the analysis in Whitehall Monitor 2024.
All work
Briefings and barges do not make for good asylum policy
The government’s ‘small boats week’ may fill a recess-shaped hole in the media grid, but won’t help the prime minister ‘stop the boats’.
What does the Office for Local Government need to succeed?
The new Office for Local Government (Oflog) is welcome – but it needs independence from government to succeed.
How can the Home Office avoid another Windrush scandal?
On the 75th anniversary of the Windrush landing, the Home Office still needs to do more to learn the lessons of the scandal.
Home truths: Cultural and institutional problems at the Home Office
The Home Office's cultural and institutional problems require urgent reform.
Rows over net migration numbers miss the point – Rishi Sunak needs a post-Brexit migration strategy
Rishi Sunak should set clear migration objectives for his whole government to follow
Ministers should be worried about declining civil service morale
Motivated civil servants will help ministers to deliver their priorities. Unhappy officials, on the other hand, will not.
The Illegal Migration Bill: seven questions for the government to answer
Seven questions the government needs to answer about the Illegal Migration Bill if it has any chance of helping the PM ‘stop the boats'.
Asylum backlog
The asylum backlog refers to the number of people seeking asylum in the UK who are awaiting a decision on their case.
Empty threats will not solve the asylum backlog
The home secretary is right to expedite asylum decision making.
Five ways Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has changed UK government
A year after Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine, five IfG experts examine the impact of the war on the UK