Ben Lucas Articles

‘People power’ requires a strategy for reform —After nearly four years of silence on the issue that divided the Blair-Brown governments, last month Ed Miliband set out the direction he wants to take Labour on public service reform, and it is a radical one. His Hugo...

The Purple Papers and Steve Van Riel’s chapter on Public Services and Political Choices rightly emphasise that there are no pain-free options for public services in the future. They accurately describe the risks and trade-offs which a future Labour government would...

The 2020 Public Services Commission recently published our assessment of the government’s record on public service reform. What stood out for us was the failure thus far to engage citizens in establishing a new public service settlement. But this is true not only of...