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Bookmark or Share- Power to the people: Britain’s new state-owned energy firmThatcher and John Major’s governments sold off swathes of the UK’s utilities and infrastructure, and Labour’s 1997-2010 administrations made no attempt to turn the tide: indeed, chancellor Gordon Brown’s Private Finance Initiative pulled more private money into public services.
- Leave a Reply - Global Government ForumTom Scholar is the best civil servant of his generation. Sacking him makes no sense. His experience would have been invaluable in the coming months as government policy places massive upward pressure on the cost of funding. As Gordon Brown used to say "they're not thinking". — Nick Macpherson (@nickmacpherson2) September 8, 2022
- Challenging the policy of procrastination - Global Government Forum“The decision has been made not to have a decision; the decision is actually indecision,” said Gordon Brown. Speaking on Monday, as UK prime minister Theresa May prepared to reveal her proposed Brexit deal to a divided Cabinet, Brown – the UK’s Labour prime minister 2007-10 – told an audience at think tank the Institute for Government ...
- Kerslake review: Treasury ‘disempowers’ rest of WhitehallThe report argues that under powerful former chancellors Gordon Brown and George Osborne, the UK’s finance department developed excessive influence over policymaking in spending departments.
- Lord O’Donnell challenges lockdown decision-making and reversion to ...Lord O’Donnell, the UK’s Cabinet secretary and head of the civil service 2005-11, was at the heart of global efforts to tackle the fall-out of the credit crunch in 2009 – when UK PM Gordon Brown, hosting the G20 summit, rallied nations to invest in coordinated action to prop up the world’s economy.
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