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Post-Brexit Trade Policy: Negotiating Country-by-Country Deals and its Discontents

By Silke Trommer Filed Under: All posts, Brexit, British Politics Posted: March 2, 2017

As Britain prepares to exit the European Union and as news outlets, think tanks and policy experts try to work out the Government’s strategy and priorities for their exiting agreement and plans post-Brexit, trade policy continues to be a key theme. With the new US administration making clear their country-by-country approach to trade deals, Dr […]

Tagged With: Brexit, EU, government, trade, trade policy, UK politics, US government, World Trade Organisation, wto

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Grand Brexit Strategies – Can Whitehall Cope? A Potted-History of [Not] Joining Government Up

Dave RichardsMartin Smith By Dave Richards and Martin Smith Filed Under: All posts, Brexit, British Politics Posted: December 6, 2016

Brexit is a political challenge on an unprecedented scale. The process of exiting the European Union impacts every government department, and requires a level of co-ordination that UK governments have rarely managed to achieve. Here, the University of Manchester’s Dave Richards and the University of York’s Martin Smith survey the size of the challenge facing […]

Tagged With: Civil Service, European Union, government, parliament, Whitehall

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Policy Week: How Much Evidence is ‘Enough’ Prior to Policy Implementation?

By Laura ffrench-Constant Filed Under: All posts, Featured, Whitehall Watch Posted: November 6, 2015

The New Researcher Network hosted a breakfast session during Policy Week to investigate how much evidence is ‘enough’ prior to policy implementation and how to strike the balance between ‘ideal evidence’ and pragmatic decision making. The event was chaired by Dr Kieron Flanagan, whilst Dr Julian Simpson of the University of Manchester and Dr Kathryn […]

Tagged With: government, policy

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The online challenge facing government

By Tarlok Teji Filed Under: Featured, Westminster Watch Posted: May 18, 2015

Creating a coherent digital policy that addresses both opportunities and threats is likely to prove a challenge for the new Government, argues Tarlok Teji. One of the major policy challenges facing the new Government is defining our relationship to the hyper-connected digital world. While that world brings fantastic opportunities, it also creates risks of global […]

Tagged With: 5G, broadband, David Cameron, digital, e-commerce, government, internet

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A Mayor for All Seasons?

Colin Talbot By Colin Talbot Filed Under: Devo, Featured, Whitehall Watch Posted: February 27, 2015

From June, Greater Manchester will get an interim mayor as part of a deal with the Government on regional devolution. But its imposition without a referendum is a fundamental error by the political elite that may well backfire, argues Professor Colin Talbot. ‘Mayors’ seem to have become the default answer of many in the political […]

Tagged With: AGMA, decentralisation, devolution, devolved, DevoManc, government, Howard Bernstein, MancDevo, Manchester, mayors, osborne, Richard Leese

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Civil Service Accountability to the Public part II

Martin Stanley By Martin Stanley Filed Under: Featured, Whitehall Watch Posted: January 19, 2015

In the second of three blogs Martin Stanley examines whether senior officials should be more accountable – especially to MPs – for the advice that they give to Ministers. This is the fourth post in our series on the Civil Service. How would officials react to greater public scrutiny?  Most of them, I suspect, would […]

Tagged With: Civil Service, government, Ministers, MPs, parliament, Whitehall

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Civil Service Accountability to the Public

Martin Stanley By Martin Stanley Filed Under: All posts, Whitehall Watch Posted: January 14, 2015

In the second of our series of posts exploring the corridors of power in Whitehall, former senior civil servant and public sector chief executive Martin Stanley discusses how we are governed and the tensions between the needs of Ministers, MPs and the wider public.  The electorate clearly believe that ‘the Westminster Village’ is incompetent and/or […]

Tagged With: Civil Service, government, Ministers, MPs, westminster, Whitehall

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Nomination of Mr Juncker – A tentative step forward for European democracy?

Georgios Papanagnou By Georgios Papanagnou Filed Under: All posts, Europe, Featured Posted: July 1, 2014

David Cameron failed to block Jean Claude Juncker from being nominated by the European Council for the post of European Commission President. Dr. Georgios Papanagnou takes a look at some of the weaknesses in the campaigns by Cameron and the British media. In the end “this time was not so much different” – Jean Claude […]

Tagged With: conservatives, election, elections, EU, europe, government, parliament, party politics, politics

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Budget 2014: Smaller and Smaller – the end of ‘Big Government’ in the UK?

Colin Talbot By Colin Talbot Filed Under: Whitehall Watch Posted: March 19, 2014

George Osborne’s fifth Budget as Chancellor delivered few real surprises or big changes. Many of the detailed adjustments were trailed in advance, and only in the pensions arena did he deliver any radical measures, writes Professor Colin Talbot. It is the pensions issue that will grab the headlines – as he intended. This was a […]

Tagged With: budget, Budget 2014, government, policy

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How and when will the Coalition end?

Colin Talbot By Colin Talbot Filed Under: Featured, Whitehall Watch Posted: February 17, 2014

As our Coalition Government moves inexorably towards its end, what are the factors and events that will determine how and when the formal dissolution takes place? Speculation is starting to build, says Prof Colin Talbot, not least because of obvious ‘distancing’ tactics being adopted by both the partners to the Coalition. We have 15 months […]

Tagged With: budget, coalition, dissolution, GE2015, general election, government, LibDems, parliament, Tories

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