Sam White

📸Snapshots | Spads under Starmer: How can Labour’s special advisers do the job well?

@gabrielpogrund.bsky.social, Salma Shah, @samwwhite.bsky.social and @timdurrant.bsky.social, discuss how special advisers can be most effective.

Watch the event💻:
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/spads-...

16.07.2025 10:56 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Spring Statement 2025 - BBC Sounds Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers her spring statement to the House of Commons.

Better link to full version here (1 hour 9 mins into the programme) for the superfans... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

26.03.2025 20:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Invited to see @mattchorley.bsky.social on BBC Radio 5 to discuss challenges of today's Spring Statement for the Chancellor; from Schrodinger's tariffs to the brain-melting Hangover of the last decade

With former Tory Treasury adviser Rupert Harrison

Extract below. Full version: lnkd.in/ebGqX96y

26.03.2025 19:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Dissecting Starmerism on BBC Radio 4 Today programme this morning

TLDR:
🏋🏻‍♀️ Starmerism is about ‘what works’; not ideology
🧗 All good strategy is context dependent
🗣️ The dual challenge for this government: deliver and tell the story

14.03.2025 10:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Always one of the key relationships in British politics… Great to join @saschaosullivan.bsky.social on ‘Westminster Insider’ to discuss working with Alistair Darling, Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer

03.03.2025 09:09 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The World This Weekend - 02/02/2025 - BBC Sounds Radio 4's look at the week's big stories from both home and around the world.

What makes a good EU reset? Talking to BBC World this Weekend (c23min in) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

02.02.2025 21:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The legacy of this week’s resignation might be very significant indeed. The rise of two very talented Labour MPs: Emma Reynolds and Torsten Bell. I’ve worked with both and enjoyed talking to Sky News' Matt Barbet about ‘the strong flavour’ that is Torsten Bell

15.01.2025 21:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

PM - Tulip Siddiq quits as treasury minister - BBC Sounds Siddiq’s resignation followed growing pressure over an anti-corruption investigation.

What does Tulip Siddiq’s resignation tell us about this government? Talking it through with Evan Davis on BBC PM programme www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

14.01.2025 20:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As Keir Starmer sets out his 6 delivery targets today, its a reminder how big a turnaround this is to get the country back on track after a decade of nearly flat living standards, productivity, investment and per capita growth

And the most limited resource might be public patience

lnkd.in/eVk9myqG

05.12.2024 10:16 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 2

I also enjoy going on media and talking about economics, life-chances, sustainability and geopolitics. Here’s a Sky News clip @skynewsrss.bsky.social from last week:

27.11.2024 09:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Currently working in a ‘portfolio’ way with some advisory and non-executive roles including Chair of Trustees at Foundations @foundationsww.bsky.social, the What Works Centre for Children and Families. Still trying to grapple with tricky societal challenges through better public policy

27.11.2024 09:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just joined Bluesky! I hear everyone posts something like that as a first post… But I hear it’s civilised here. Looking forward to it

27.11.2024 09:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0