
Pat McFadden, a senior cabinet minister, has called for “responsiveness” and “calculated risk-taking” within the civil service, as reported by the Institute for Government. But just wishing for something won’t make it happen, as John Penrose, founder of the Centre…
Marcus Bokkerink, Chair of the Government’s top competition watchdog the Competition & Markets Authority, has been forced to resign by Government Ministers. John Penrose, author of the Government-commissioned report on competition policy…
PM Keir Starmer, Chancellor Rachel Reeves & Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds have written to regulators, including Ofwat, Ofgem & the Environment Agency, asking for ideas on how to boost economic growth. The move has been greeted with a mixture of…
This week Labour Cabinet Minister Liz Kendall announced that ‘WASPI’ (Women Against State Pension Inequality) women won’t get any redress for Government mistakes which caused injustice to some (although not all) of them. That’s in spite of her (along with…
The Government have, at last, appointed the new Anti-Corruption Champion after a whopping 917 days of vacancy. Previous Anti-Corruption Champion John Penrose congratulated the new champion, Baroness Hodge of Barking, on her new role within the government, highlighting her record…
John Penrose and former Labour adviser John McTernan discuss the news that the PM will pay back some of his gifts.
Weston-super-Mare’s former MP John Penrose took to Twitter ahead of the Government’s vote on whether to scrap Winter Fuel Allowance for pensioners to express his concern over the impact such a decision would have on the local elderly population. He…
This article was originally written for Conservative Home and published on 10/09/2024. Just over two months ago, we handed Labour the supermajority we worried about. We lost votes to Labour, the Liberal Democrats, and Reform, as well as to apathy…
The following article was written by Alex Ralph and Lauren Almeida and published on The Times Less than a week after the Labour government was elected, the chancellor and the business secretary unveiled plans for a new National Wealth Fund to…