Can no government reform Whitehall?

Not Another One

Richards Green Montgomerie Martin

Politics, News, Political, Political Commentary, Prime Minister, General Election, Number 10, Not Another One, Rishi Sunak

4.7 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This week Reform’s Danny Kruger set out his plans to modernise the civil service while the current government is supposed to be carrying out its own reforms. But nothing is happening. Virtually every government identifies a need to improve the civil service and then backs away from significant change. Why? Plus, are Wes Streeting and Andy Burnham getting ready to challenge Keir Starmer next year?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to not another one, the podcast with me, Steve Richards, Tim Montgomery, Ian Martin and Miranda Green.
0:19.3	Miranda isn't with us, but the rest of us are in the studio,
0:22.3	which is a kind of exciting moment, really.
0:25.6	Hasn't happened recently, has it?
0:27.2	No, everyone's been travelling around busy.
0:29.8	Travelling the world.
0:31.0	You've been doing your shows, sorting things out.
0:34.1	We were all together last week, though, for our live edition, which hope everyone enjoy.
0:38.9	Oh, yeah, we were live. Not another one live. And now we are sort of live in that we're all in the studio.
0:46.8	And we're going to do a mix of topics. We're going to look at the Labour leadership speculation with talk of Andy Burnham returning to the Commons
0:57.1	or seeking to do so and other apparent manoeuvrings. We'll explore that. We'll look at the
1:04.7	state of Whitehall. I mean, there's a whole podcast to do on the state of Whitehall and Whitehall
1:09.8	reform highlighted at one of reforms regular
1:14.1	weekly press conferences and apparently one of the themes of this Labour government but we can
1:21.6	explore that because it was going to be done by Pat McFadden and he's been moved so let's discuss that
1:27.2	but we better begin with this
1:29.6	awful awful uh shooting uh on bondi beach tim i think you were live on air with the trevor phillips
1:38.0	program that we'll do occasionally uh as it unfolded i mean i, I just watch these things.
1:44.5	Well, I can't watch.
1:45.8	It's just so horrifying, isn't it?
1:47.8	It is almost beyond discussion.
1:52.5	It's just a horrifying set of images.
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