This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government highlights seven questions for the government to answer on the new Illegal Immigration Bill. One of the five key pledges Rishi Sunak set out in January was to stop asylum seekers arriving in the UK by small boats crossing the English Channel. The number of...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at lessons from six case studies and other research on government data sharing during the pandemic. During the pandemic, the government created the Clinically Extremely Vulnerable People Service – which required sharing individual address and health information – in a matter of weeks. It...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at role that political parties play through their influential constitutional reforms. Political parties are the “ghosts in the machine” of the UK constitution – and more attention should be paid to their role in reforming how it operates. This guest paper by Professor Tim...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at the role of England’s mayors in the climate transition. This report calls on the UK government to put England’s mayors at the heart of its net zero strategy and give England’s locally elected leaders the powers and funding to become trailblazers in transitioning...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government is their annual, data-based assessment of the UK civil service over the past year.  This is the 10th edition of Whitehall Monitor – our annual, data-based assessment of the UK civil service, how it has changed and performed over the past year, and its priorities...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at the government’s claims for why the NHS crisis is happening and the effect of its response. The government’s emergency measures to support the NHS will likely be too little and too late to solve this winter’s crisis. The report evaluates the government’s claims...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at the tough choices and difficult trade-offs facing the government in 2023. As we begin 2023, the tough choices and difficult trade-offs involved in governing a country are more evident than ever. Governments around the world are dealing with geopolitical tensions, the health and...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government argues that ministers and civil servants need to urgently reset relations. Brexit, Covid and Boris Johnson have made existing tensions in relations between civil servants and ministers unsustainable. This report, the latest in the Institute for Government/Bennett Institute review of the UK constitution, argues that...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at an international comparison for subnational government. England’s usually messy patchwork of governing arrangements makes it an international outlier in its subnational government structures. This report draws on comparable data across large, advanced economies and additional qualitative analysis of Germany and Japan (including interviews...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at how the UK think tank sector can improve its diversity. Think tanks need to improve outreach, change perceptions of the sector and adapt their recruitment to improve their diversity. This report investigates why think tanks are not as diverse as they could be...