On Thursday in Hull, the PM gave a speech that echoed the rhetoric of every Conservative prime minister since Margaret Thatcher. The “state has become bigger, but weaker,” he complained; Britain needs ...

When it was announced that Sir Keir Starmer was to make a speech about civil service reform in Hull, I was slightly surprised ...

Sir Keir Starmer has announced his plans to make the British state more “innovative and effective”. Can his reform agenda ...

Trump’s revolution has upended global politics. Neither Labor nor the Coalition has seriously confronted the difficult policy ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves was this week hit by a growing Labour party backlash over her plans to cut state spending and news ...

Louise Murphy, senior economist at the Resolution Foundation think-tank, urged ministers to “proceed cautiously rather than ...

The prime minister and Pat McFadden, his Cabinet Office enforcer, envisage taking more of a scalpel to what Starmer has ...

The NHS is the largest public sector organisation in England, seeing 1.7 million people each day including in patients’ own ...

We don’t know, but we know lots of smart people. They’re standing by to explain whatever happens. We will help them share the ...

There’s another question reverberating around Whitehall following Keir Starmer’s bold decision to abolish NHS England, writes Andrew Grice: will the cuts make the savings he hopes?

According to Prof Phil Banfield, chair of BMA council, it had become clear that the centre "no longer has a grip on the ...

Dr Alex George has been axed from his role of UK Youth Mental Health Ambassador after nearly four years and said it was the ...