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...He ruled “that Mr Knight is indeed Nicholas Rossi”....
...The allegations centred on the actions of Leslie McCrae Dowless, one of Mr Harris’ political operatives....
...Mr McCrae suggested that the success of the venture may depend on whether users would be able to have frank discussions about successes and failures in private....
...McCrae said....
...“The manifesto clearly has a lot of new commitments in it and the point stands that Whitehall does not have the capacity to act,” said Julian McCrae, deputy director of the Institute for Government....
...Mr Hammond is splitting Mr Kelly’s role in two....
...“Instead of repeating aspirations to transform services, it should analyse why such transformations have not occurred in the past and develop strategies to succeed this time around,” said Mr McCrae....
...Julian McCrae, research director at the Institute for Government, says: “The tax lock was a silly commitment, and with a commanding poll lead the Conservatives should drop it for this election....
...concluded Mr McCrae....
...Mr McCrae says it would be unwise for the government to set up a wholly new department from scratch, given how quickly it needs to get on with its work....
...Julian McCrae, deputy director of the Institute for Government, welcomed the suggestion. “If you create fiscal events, they generate their own momentum and so get filled with guff....
...Julian McCrae, deputy director of the Institute for Government, said that the civil service was based on the notion that it was there to serve any government....
...Julian McCrae, deputy director of the Institute for Government, said the overshoots pointed to the scale of pressures that Whitehall was already facing....
...Mr McCrae predicts that the Treasury will engage in a “salami slicing operation” for government departments, with the risk that this time the public services — after six years of austerity — are under much...
...“It seems highly unlikely all of this is going to add up,” Mr Portes said. Final details will be revealed in a white paper after the EU referendum in June....
...Launching the exercise more than six months ago, Mr Manzoni, a former senior BP executive, told civil servants that successful organisations required “a single, clear road map”....
...Mr McCrae asked. “Looking ahead, this is one of [the OBR’s] biggest challenges”....
...“If they give ground now, they might as well abandon the whole thing,” Mr McCrae said....
...Mr Sands’ record splits opinion in the City....
...Julian McCrae, deputy director of the Institute for Government think-tank, said that with the increased defence spending and the protection for health, unprotected departments could see their budgets cut...
...Julian McCrae, deputy director of the Institute for Government, said other nations, such as Canada, had been aided by their federal structures in implementing big fiscal consolidations....
...Julian McCrae, deputy director of the Institute for Government think-tank, argues: “The job isn’t just to get the numbers from the spending review to add up....
...Julian McCrae, deputy director at the Institute for Government, said the coalition also survived for the simple reason that “parties tend to get punished at the ballot box if they bring down a government...
...Julian McCrae, deputy director of the Institute for Government, said the £10bn in savings targeted by the chancellor could only be achieved if there was “real and fundamental change in the way the government...
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