Sarah Nickson
Former Senior Researcher
All work
Pay reform for the senior civil service
The government must commit to ringfencing the £45m needed to fund its promised reform of senior civil service pay or risk undermining job satisfaction
The Queen’s Speech fails to address undelivered manifesto promises
Passing the legislation flagged in the Queen’s Speech will move many manifesto commitments from the government's ‘to do’ to the ‘done’ list
Taking stock of the Conservative manifesto
The government is yet to deliver around half of its 2019 manifesto promises – and many of those it has made progress on are the ‘easy wins’.
The Treasury’s move to Darlington lacks a clear route to succeed
The chancellor may live to regret putting politics first in his choice of location for the new Treasury office
Manifesto promises alone should not hold back Rishi Sunak's Budget
The views of the public and the chancellor’s colleagues are more likely to bind his hands on pensions and tax than the letter of the manifesto
Ministers should not promise a revolution from civil service relocation
Ministers should not give the impression that relocation alone will transform decision making
Coronavirus hotel quarantine: key questions for the government
The gaps and challenges the government must answer if it wants its quarantine system to be a success.
Hotel quarantine
Hotel quarantine for new arrivals has been introduced to “reduce the risk of a new strain of the virus entering the UK”.
The UK’s coronavirus quarantine policy risks being the worst of both worlds
Restricting quarantine to a few high-risk countries won’t stop new variants entering the country and will still be costly and disruptive
Australian-style quarantine is not an easy coronavirus fix for the UK
Lessons from the latest proposed policy import from Australia must not be lost in translation, Sarah Nickson argues