Fascinating discussion of Labour’s last transition to power and the first few days of Brown’s Treasury - and valuable eg of the importance of historiography and ethnography in political research

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL The Rest Is Politics Gus O'Donnell P.S. You might be interested in this Cabinet Secretaries interview series we (Jon Davis The Strand Group formerly Mile End Group) did, when Jeremy Heywood was Cabinet Secretary. Filmed in No10. cabinetsecretaries.com

Congrats Rushabh Haria who won the Treasury History Essay Prize for ‘The economic dog & its political tail: Did HMT take a purely economic approach to UK-EU integration 1997-2007?’ Chosen by Chief Economic Adviser Sam Beckett Join the class this Autumn: thestrandgroup.kcl.ac.uk/module/chancel…

Honoured to have Sir Michael Barber join our MA Government Studies teaching team Sir Michael Barber’s long career transforming public services in 🇬🇧 and countries around the 🌍 demonstrates his deep commitment to service, purpose and pragmatism to deliver change The Policy Institute

Huge thanks to Chief Economic Adviser Sam Beckett and congratulations to Rushabh!

Pat McFadden at Blair institute conference today: “It’s a funny thing in the Labour Party because we’ve got a curious relationship with our past, and one of the big mistakes that we made after 2010 was distancing ourselves from the Labour govt. It wasn’t just a tactical mistake

Join us in Sept if you’d like to learn more about the Labour govt 1997-2010 thestrandgroup.kcl.ac.uk/module/the-new…

The full McFadden interview here youtu.be/bKiC8GaSRlU

As ever Pat McFadden is 100% correct in his analysis

Spot on.

"It says something about British society that, in being broadly reflective of the rest of the country, this administration is highly unusual." Jack Brown on the educational background of the new cabinet and The Strand Group's new MA Government Studies kcl.ac.uk/news/starmers-…

Very thoughtful from Jack Brown on the new Cabinet and the importance of history in understanding government. Dr Brown teaches on our MA Government Studies: thestrandgroup.kcl.ac.uk/ma-government-…

Congrats on the new job - latest Political Currency out now..

‘Sir Michael Barber, former New Labour adviser & perhaps the most effective aide of the past half-century’ - join ⁦Sir Michael Barber⁩ & other fabulous teachers this Autumn for our new MA Govt Studies ⁦⁦King's College London⁩ thestrandgroup.kcl.ac.uk/ma-government-… economist.com/britain/2024/0…

Enjoyed talking Green Belt, "Grey Belt", Brownfield and much more with inimitable Eddie Nestor MBE this morning (from 1hr 11mins in). (1/2) bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

At the heart of all this is the question - how do we solve London's housing crisis? A key theme of my 'London: Governing the Global City' module, part of our The Strand Group new MA Government Studies, launching this September - find out more here: thestrandgroup.kcl.ac.uk/ma-government-… (2/2)

Nice to be quoted in this interesting piece

Our PhD candidate Alan Bancroft has a letter in today’s Guardian comparing the current Labour government to Wilson’s in 1974 theguardian.com/politics/artic…