We propose a new, standalone department for the PM - 'Downing Street' - bringing the UK in line with other democracies like Australia, Canada and Sweden who all have this in place.

Our model would see this new dept organised around four groups

We'll be discussing the report at Labour conference next week: Alex will be in conversation with @annabel-smith.bsky.social, Mayor Helen Godwin, Antonia Bance MP and James Tyler of Equinix.

Join us bright and early on Monday morning if you'll be there!

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Keir Starmer is a man of his word. Less than a year after he made the commitment, he has released the sausages

You can read the full report here: www.futuregovernanceforum.co.uk/resource/asy...

They suggest learning from an underreported policy success at the end of the Biden administration, which saw enforcement activity combined with new processing routes to reduce the no of irregular crossings by some nationalities at the US-MX border by up to 99%

I feel very seen by the latest Kate Mossman piece for @newstatesman.com

www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

We have urged govt to adopt 'Infrastructure Investment Partnerships', a new model of public-private partnership that learns from the past.

These should be deployed selectively and strategically, in line with the govt's missions - consistent with what the NAO recommends on clear mandates.

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New @futuregovforum.bsky.social event alert:

Later this month we publish our next report, on transforming local government for the digital era.

We've got a great online launch event with @publicdigital.bsky.social on *Wed 19 Mar* at *12.30*.

Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-can-we...

Huge thanks to my co-authors @hamidaali.bsky.social, @joeholland93.bsky.social and @shuab.bsky.social

And to all those who spoke to us for it, especially @viasat.com and Lord Willetts for his insight and for writing the foreword

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We were joined by a great cross-section of funders and founders with direct experience of scale-up success - and the barriers to it.

We have a £15bn scale-up funding gap in the UK right now, and the opportunities in terms of productivity and economic growth in closing that gap are enormous.

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Thought it was good on the dynamics that make this cultural shift harder to achieve: risk aversion, defaulting to the status quo, self-reinforcing feedback loops.

Shows the need for real political will to make progress here - but the opportunity is enormous.

demos.co.uk/research/the...

At a roundtable on digital infrastructure and skills this morning, and someone quoted these staggering stats from the recent State of Digital Govt report, which I'd missed at the time.

So much scope for digitising and improving public services...

www.gov.uk/government/p...