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Starmer must go further with reforming the state and ‘turn government inside out’  - Future Governance Forum The Future Governance Forum (FGF) has today urged the Prime Minister to push ahead with his plans to reform the state and pursue his mission-driven approach to government, arguing that ongoing politic...

“Reforming the state is not a luxury to be set aside amid new crises; it is how to respond to those crises and renew the nation."

Speaking at Ruskin College, Oxford, Director @yeowell.bsky.social urges the PM to "double down" on his missions agenda.
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Last week the PM set out plans for digital change across Whitehall.

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Officials empowered to innovate, iterative approaches to policy design and delivery, greater experimentation - today’s speech was an exciting realisation of mission-driven practice.

He closes by summarising the government’s approach.

We need more “doers” not checkers, “a system with fewer and better rules,” and we need to attract the best people to join government.

He now turns to civil service recruitment: “It’s time to overhaul the way recruitment processes work,” he says, opening up the civil service’s closed-culture and making the process friendlier to non-Whitehall people.

“Scrub the jargon and focus on what’s needed for the job,” he says.

McFadden’s opens by saying “I haven’t got this all figured out form beginning to end,” signalling a break from the usual Westminster/Whitehall-knows-best attitude.

This morning, we’re in UCL East watching Chancellor the Duchy Pat McFadden announce the government’s new ‘test-and-learn’ approach to public service delivery.

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