Careful reform to school regulation and inspections is needed to build on the benefits of inspection while reducing the risk that teachers will be put off entering school leadership. The new chief Inspector Sir Martyn Oliver starts his five-year term – on …
Fourteen years ago, then foreign secretary David Miliband was making the case for the UK to propose a former prime minister as president of the European Council. His case for Tony Blair was that he would: “stop the traffic in Beijing and Moscow”, but then …
Spectacular by-elections. The Covid inquiry. The Privileges Committee report into Boris Johnson.. War in the Middle East. An outbreak of civil war in the Conservative Party. It has been quite some year. So how did Rishi Sunak’s pledges work out? Has Keir …
It is likely that more councils will issue ‘bankruptcy’ notices This finance settlement confirmed that the government still has no serious answer to the recent spate of local authority ‘bankruptcies’. When pressed in a recent evidence session to the …
So that was the year that was. Just the one prime minister this time, but plenty of political drama and intrigue, twists and turns, and high and lows. David Runciman, the former host of the Talking Politics podcast, joins the IfG team to look back on the …
Same-sex marriages are now celebrated all over the UK. They are a core part of the UK’s culture, communities and institutions. Passing legislation to introduce same-sex marriage was a landmark moment – for many couples personally, but also for the wider …
The next general election is – at most – one year away. If Labour wins, there will, as is almost always the case in the UK, be an overnight transition of power. A party that has spent 14 years in opposition would be instantly thrown into government. But …
What is the Liaison Committee? The Liaison Committee is the ‘super committee’ which oversees the select committee system in the House of Commons. It was first established in 1980 following the 1979 reforms which led to the creation of the modern …
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The last few years have not been the best for the government’s record on transparency nor for open, ethical government more generally. Two years ago, we found that many departments were consistently missing the deadline for publishing information on …
While five groups of right wing Conservative MPs – the so-called ‘five families – have not been making life easy for the prime minister, Rishi Sunak’s controversial immigration bill made its way through the Commons without one Tory rebelling. But is the …
Matt Hancock, Dominic Cummings, Rishi Sunak, Patrick Vallance, Chris Whitty and, of course, Boris Johnson have all relived – and tried to justify – the decisions taken by government during the pandemic. So as the year draws to a close, The Expert Factor …
On Tuesday 12 December the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill passed second reading by 313 votes to 269, a majority of 44. No Conservative MPs voted against the bill, though 29 abstained. So what happens next? With Conservative right-wing …
“What, as the minister responsible for the economy and public finances, do you think an optimal strategy for managing the pandemic should look like, and why?” is the simple question that Rishi Sunak should have been asked at his Covid inquiry appearance. …
Devolution to Wales is almost 25 years old. Since the first Welsh assembly elections in 1999, the powers of the devolved institutions in Cardiff have been substantially expanded –with Welsh voters backing the historic transformation of the assembly into a …
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Satisfaction with the healthcare system is at its lowest level since 1997 – but the issue has been consistently rising as a priority for voters over the past two years. Waiting lists are at record levels. And the damage caused by the Covid pandemic …
Just three weeks after the Supreme Court handed down its judgment finding that it is not safe for the UK to send asylum seekers to Rwanda,* the government has introduced the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill to parliament. The bill states that …
Robert Jenrick has resigned as immigration minister, former home secretary Suella Braverman says the Rwanda Bill will lose the Conservatives the next election, and the prime minister’s has been forced hold an emergency – and tetchy – press conference. So …
