Some news🗞️After a wonderful 4 1/2 years at the Institute for Government, I have left to join Labour Together as Director of Constitutional Change. I'm excited to be working with the LT team & Nick Thomas-Symonds MP to help Labour develop constitutional policy ahead of the next election!

Today MPs will debate the second report of the Speakers’ Conference on the employment conditions of MPs’ staff. My recent report at Constitution Unit with a survey of MPs’ staff, offers an analysis of how staffing works, who these staff are and what they do 🧵ucl.ac.uk/constitution-u…

Rishi Sunak has backed himself into a corner over the Rwanda plan - just as Suella Braverman warned

My latest for Institute for Government on today's Supreme Court ruling and what it means for the government's asylum strategy ahead of the election 🧵

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Last Foreign Sec in the Lords: Lord Carrington (1979-82)

Lords running government departments in recent years: Nicky Morgan (DCMS 2019-20), Peter Mandelson (BERR/BIS 2008-10), Andrew Adonis (DfT 2009-10)

It's on! I'm in the office! Some of us have had coffee!

Follow Institute for Government for all the latest reshuffle news

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In the Economist's 'By Invitation' slot of bylined guest articles, we have three great pieces this week on reforming the British constitution.

1. Jess Sargeant and Hannah White on the case for new institutional checks economist.com/by-invitation/…

NEW REPORT: By 2028, almost all public services will still be performing worse than pre-pandemic, which in most cases was already worse than in 2010 when the Conservatives came to power

Without a sustained change in approach, public services risk getting stuck in a doom loop

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🚨 New PoliticsHome podcast 🚨 Should Bishops still help draft our laws, or has the time come to boot them out the House of Lords? SNP MP Tommy Sheppard MP, Jess Sargeant from the IfG and Edward Stourton from BBC Radio 4 Sunday join me to discuss. 🎧 Listen here: podfollow.com/politicshome/e…

In search of weekend listening?

There’s 3 new podcasts from Institute for Government this week 🎧🎙️

First up, Inside Briefing brings you top by-election analysis - with guest Lucy Fisher joining Hannah White Dr Catherine Haddon Alex Thomas & Jess Sargeant

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💥 Today launches Institute for Government election content! 💥 Starting with Ben Paxton explainer on when the election will take place. There are four likely dates: 2nd May 2024, mid-Oct 2024, 21st Nov 2024 or 23d Jan 2025. See our full explainer for more info: instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/next…

The IFG's Jess Sargeant highlights, in responding to Jamie, potential problems with capacity & the danger of over promising & underdelivering in the process of engaging citizens in developing the Scottish government's proposed constitution.

👥 We're at SNP conference tomorrow, for an event with Institute for Government on what the constitution of an independent Scotland might look like.

✨ Featuring Jamie Hepburn MSP Anand Menon Lesley Riddoch Jill Rutter and Jess Sargeant

Come join us if you can!

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Heading to the SNP conference? Then join us on Monday 16 October, 12:30, for our event on what the constitution of an independent Scotland would look like.

With Jamie Hepburn MSP Anand Menon Lesley Riddoch Jill Rutter and Jess Sargeant instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/constitu…

Our associate director Jess Sargeant spoke about our recent constitution review with Bennett Institute for Public Policy at #Lab23 .

Read the full recommendations instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/fi…

Looking forward to joining Angela Smith, Anas Sarwar, Stephen Bush, Jess Sargeant & Hannah White for FDA union's fringe with Institute for Government on constitutional reform

Lots to cover from Lords reform to devolution to Labour’s proposals for a new integrity and ethics commission

PODCAST 🎙️ The start of the Keir show

How will Keir Starmer respond to Rishi Sunak’s ambitious pitch to be the change candidate at the next election? Anoosh Chakelian and Josh Simons Labour Together join Hannah White Emma_Norris on this week's Inside Briefing instituteforgovernment.org.uk/podcast/inside…

And to wrap up Monday, at 19:00 we will host a discussion exploring the constitutional consequences of electoral reform.

Our panel includes Florence Eshalomi MP Mick Antoniw MS/AS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊🇺🇦, Darren Hughes from Electoral Reform Society, Alex Thomas and Jess Sargeant.

If you had £36 billion to splash on transport, where would you spend it?

Our BBC Newsnight take on:
🔹Rishi Sunak’s framing of his biggest policy decision
🔹The commitments that sound strangely familiar
🔹And the reforms that may never reach reality

Featuring Sam Freedman and…

A very thorough and important piece of research here from Dr Rebecca McKee on MPs staff 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

A new report from me today this time from Constitution Unit looking at MPs' staff - who they are and what they do. We know more than ever about MPs but until now very little about the over 3,500 staff who work for them.

Important info when thinking about how to improve the system