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Patrick Diamond Articles

Labour must decide on civil service reform

This week’s dramatic reshuffle has inevitably focused on the ups and downs of Conservative careers – the surprise departure of William Hague and the shock demotion of Michael Gove, alongside a clutch of ministerial promotions and casualties. Less noticed but in some...

March of the modernisers

Has Conservative modernisation stalled? Patrick Diamond and Ryan Shorthouse go head to head Dear Ryan Past Conservative leaders have demonstrated a ruthless ability to reinvent and modernise their party as times changed. Defeat in 1945 heralded ‘the forward march of...

Three principles for governing from the centre-left

This week’s report by the Local Government Innovation Taskforce, People-Powered Public Services, marks another important stage in Labour’s policy review. The report sets out in detail how a future Labour administration should go about the task of decentralising...

Condition of Britain report: childcare and early years

The political rationale driving IPPR’s landmark Condition of Britain report is that we cannot ‘spend our way’ to a social democratic society. In a climate of austerity, with severe constraints on public expenditure, alternative strategies are required to forge a...