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COMMENT: Allies insist that, after a gloomy start in the job, the chancellor had long planned to shift up a gear – but her announcement of a third Heathrow runway and a ‘Silicon Valley’ from Oxford to Cambridge felt suspiciously like someone in a hurry to correct her own mistakes,…

Exclusive: Pilots for staff training, jobcentres and speeding up disability benefit payments not being taken up

Chillingly, in the BBC sitcom, Humphrey emerges as cabinet secretary, the most powerful position in the civil service

Some of the tools, named after the fictional Whitehall official Sir Humphrey Appleby from the BBC’s Yes, Minister, are ready for use straight away.

Chancellor survives chaos in markets but faces more questions on growth, cuts, public sector pay and fraud

Concerns had been mounting over future of £200m a year scheme providing food and activities for vulnerable children

Starmer open to second state visit for Donald Trump, amid worries about tariffs and recent setbacks to political relationship

John Van Reenen believes he can help Labour solve the ‘peculiar British problem’ of chronically weak productivity

Research found ‘little evidence’ that the Government’s overarching plans had ‘truly gripped Whitehall’.