Working to make government more effective

Working to make government more effective

(left to right) Health Secretary Wes Streeting, Dr James Marsh, Group Deputy CEO for Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, and NHS CEO Amanda Pritchard during a visit to Elective Orthopaedic Centre in Epsom
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Keir Starmer’s government: Traitors or Faithfuls?

The IfG podcast team explore what the anonymous briefings to the media against cabinet ministers tell us about how No.10 is working.

Ambitious Labour politicians might or might not be eyeing up the top job. No.10 isn’t working well. The prime minister is on the defensive. Here we go again.

Wes Streeting, the health secretary, is in the headlines – accused of plotting a leadership challenge against the prime minister. Streeting has dismissed the attacks as “self-defeating nonsense” and has urged Keir Starmer to sack whoever is briefing the media. So what does this all say about how No.10 is working, or not, and what impact does this type of row have across the government?

PLUS: Wes Streeting really wants to be talking about his plans for turning around NHS performance. But our new report has some mixed news about how that is going.

People featured in this episode

Topic
Ministers Civil service Public services
Keywords
Cabinet Government communications NHS Health Public sector Public spending
Political party
Labour
Position
Prime minister Health and social care secretary
Administration
Starmer government
Department
Number 10 Department of Health and Social Care
Public figures
Keir Starmer Wes Streeting
Publisher
Institute for Government

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