Our event with Philip Rycroft Philip Rycroft and David Shukman in Dumfries has now sold out.

But thanks to our friends at Broadcasting Scotland you will be able to watch it live on YouTube

🗓 Sat - 27th April
⏰ 12 noon (BST)
📺youtube.com/watch?v=8JuAep…

Bit past my sell by date...

Not Sir....but look forward to the event!

When you're going to insult people, best to get the right person. Wrong Rycroft. Have a lovely day!

Public services are in crisis & there is no quick financial fix.

We need to rewire existing spending around community priorities.

In a report out today, John Denham & Jessica Studdert call for place-based budgeting, reviving Total Place for today's climate.

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Delighted that my new book hurstpublishers.com/book/fractured… is published today. A big thank you to the people who helped me along the way with it – the officials and politicians I interviewed over the years, those who kindly read and commented on it, and all involved at Hurst Publishers

Lovely way to start 2024 - with a new report making a different kind of case for devolution and decentralisation!

Local autonomy could create huge local benefits. But could it also help to improve things at the centre?

Quick 🧵 on a report I'm thrilled to see out in the world!

ICYMI: Our new report, 'A Little Less Conversation: Closing Scotland's Implementation Gap' was published this week!

Catch up on the event featuring report author Jamie Gollings, OSF Chair Jim Gallagher and former civil servants Philip Rycroft & Lucy HunterBlackburn 👇

In written evidence to the PACAC Committee's inquiry into devolution capability in Whitehall, Philip Rycroft & Michael Kenny say there is a perceived impression that devolved governments are not seen as serious partners in the governance of the UK.

civilserviceworld.com/professions/ar…

🚨 NEW REPORT 🚨

Today we publish 'An efficiency mindset', setting out recommendations for how efficiency can be embedded in Whitehall's everyday work

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Philip Rycroft, former head of the Department for Exiting the EU, writes for Encompass The irrelevance of Brexit encompass-europe.com/comment/the-ir… #BrexitHasFailed

Former head of the UK Department for Exiting the EU…The irrelevance of Brexit encompass-europe.com/comment/the-ir… @kirkbytop #brexit

Whitehall needs to be prepared for the change ahead.

And it could be best done, write @kirkbytop and John Denham, by instituting an England Office:

prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/63068…

New: Reforming England’s national governance

'Without coherent governance for England no party can deliver its aims.'

@kirkbytop & John Denham draft a memo for Starmer &/or Sunak to send to the Cabinet Secretary in relation to English devolution & policy.

bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/reforming…

A bit of provocation on the governance of England... Won't be taking bets in this actually happening!

🎧 New week, new podcast!

In this episode @Markhleonard & Susi Dennison welcome former permanent secretary in the🇬🇧’s Department for Exiting the EU, Philip Rycroft. How's post-Brexit Britain approaching trade deals & regulatory alignment with 3rd countries?
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Early outing this morning on Today to support the work by Reform looking at why changing Whitehall is so difficult.

Pleasure to co-author w. Charlotte Pickles, a major output to inform our Whitehall work 🏛️

If you understand blockers to reform, new ideas for changing system can really have an impact 🦾

Simon Kaye Patrick King Rachael Powell + I will be setting these out in near future 👀

Join our Festival of Politics panel in partnership with David Hume Institute:

🗳️ We'll look back at the #devolution process since 1997 and discuss what the next 25 years might bring.
Hear from Katy Hayward, Prof. Nicola McEwan, and Philip Rycroft.

Tickets via ow.ly/V1X050Pe7kt