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This is the memo sent from Sir Gus O'Donnell to then prime minister Gordon Brown on the possibility of setting up an inquiry into phone hacking.
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Book Review: Nick Clegg: The Biography
...rdquo;. Clegg’s son suffered a severe illness as a baby, but thankfully survived. “It was awful,” says Clegg, “but what Gordon Brown and David Cameron went throug...
...versight.” The costs of work such as harmonising staff terms and conditions have to be considered, she adds: “I’m fairly sure Gordon Brown did not think of the implicat...
Blog posts
Why didn’t someone think of this ‘welfare reform’ earlier?
...nto the workplace. Now, not all of it was simplified because of political reasoning: by creating a complex system that no-one could understand, Gordon Brown could redistribute wealth fro...
...s is certainly the amount he draws, but only because David Cameron has imposed a five per cent ministerial pay cut and elects – following Gordon Brown’s lead – not to t...
News
...storing autonomy in 2001. When Gordon Brown became prime minister, he thou...transport to the Treasury when Brown took over, and was surprised a...re of civil servants there. “Gordon had preferred to operate thr...man1992 Joins Gordon Brown’s team as Labour’s City s...
NAO slams government tinkering
...ate Change (DECC) – and many more reorganised. Most controversially, the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS), set up by Gordon Brown in June 2007, was folded just...
Analysis_opinion
...project, and with consummate skill persuaded first Gordon Brown and then David Cameron to give it their political backing. Brown saw it as a step towards a wr...ister should remain in office after an election (as Gordon Brown did) until it is clear who co...
Editorial: Work for the UK, not the Conservatives
...oday about the possibility of Gordon Brown heading the International Mone...ob. It suits Cameron to paint Brown as an utter idiot who left th...the USA that their debts are Gordon’s fault. And while Brown d...Jeremy Heywood has told CSW, Brown played a “very, very import...
Interviews
...en done to improve finance skills in government, at least at the most senior levels. “When Tony Blair was prime minister and Gordon Brown was chancellor, it came to Brown’s attention that a signific...
...e police: “I’m sorry to say that Jacqui Smith didn’t understand this when she was the home secretary, and therefore against the wishes of Gordon Brown – who rang me and asked me...
Features
Reacting to the warning signals
...n the front line for a local authority. ResponsibilitySometimes, service failures are due to poor management: for example, then-prime minister Gordon Brown blamed the managers of Mid-St...
...ious changes since May have been in the atmosphere and working hours. Gordon Brown was moody; driven. He often w...2002.Cameron’s approach to his colleagues is also more relaxed than Brown’s. “It’s a less prickly...
Round_tables
...for Government fellow Adrian Brown, pointed out that it is not ju...Ablewhite, Iain Kent, Adrian Brown; (front row) Sharon Cooper, Jo...d”.At the first discussion, Brown mooted the possibility that m...sion, NAO audit manager Sandy Gordon was able to offer a helpful...
Special_report
...iduals such as Michael Ellam, Gordon Brown’s spokesman and director of...s. In 2006 he became chair of Gordon Brown’s Council of Economic Advise...to the Lords brief on Gordon Brown’s accession to the leadersh...parties around the world. On Gordon Brown’s takeover in 2007 h...
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Caught in the webLast week’s Smarter Government strategy gave departments a hard push towards online services – and suggested that service users should receive equally powerful encouragements to get on the web. Matt Ross reports It has become something of a running joke that, whenever anyone ...
Tags: gus o'donnell, gordon brown, government, politics and public administration, civil service, e-government, public services, reform of public services
Caught in the webLast week’s Smarter Government strategy gave departments a hard push towards online services – and suggested that service users should receive equally powerful encouragements to get on the web. Matt Ross reports It has become something of a running joke that, whenever anyone ...
Tags: gus o'donnell, gordon brown, government, politics and public administration, civil service, e-government, public services, reform of public services