Labour's march through state institutions shows the Tories should be much bolder in the future
She has fantastically deep and detailed knowledge of how Whitehall works, and has already put it to good use was no friend of Whitehall – and the antipathy was mutual. Reflecting on his difficult relationship with officialdom, the hero of the hard left reflected later in life that the Civil Service existed to ensure “that the continuity of government works within the Department and then people come in and stay for a year or two in the bridal suite in the Grand Hotel and they still run it.
With the momentum of his first 100 days in office, he has not fallen into the trap that Boris Johnson did after his decisive win in 2019. Where Johnson opted for lethargy instead of making the British state work for him – before the pandemic ensured any bold institutional reforms were impossible – Starmer has done the opposite, undoubtedly guided by Gray and her decades of Civil Service experience.
But on the other hand, no – few of these non-exec directors had ties to political parties. Hogan-Howe, for example, may have served Johnson when he was London Mayor, but he sits as a crossbench peer in the Lords. Jary, who founded OC&C Strategy, is one of the City’s most seasoned management consultants but is no Tory apparatchik.
Both had personal links to the Conservative Party; Labour decried it as “a descent into cronyism”. The Good Law Project, the self-proclaimed bastions of what is right and proper,– action that went nowhere and was dropped. There has been not a murmur from these crowdfunded campaigns about Labour’s appointments.
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