Hello and welcome to The Rondown, a podcast from Politics Home with me Alan Tolhurst.

This week, Rachel Reeves set out her plans on how and where Labour is set to spend money for much-the-rest-less Parliament.

But the question now is, do you have a plan for how they're going to deliver on their priorities,

and succeed in completing Kirstama's missions for government? The vexed issue of actually delivering in office what you came in to do

has bedeviled administrations of all stripes, as they get bogged down in tackling the inevitable

day-to-day crises and get buffeted by global issues. So how can it be done well, and what can this

government learn about being successful at it? One person synonymous with his subject is Michael Barber, who was put in charge of Tony Blair's

delivery unit in 2001, and last year was made the Prime Minister's advisor on affected delivery

by Kirstama.

So this week, I'm delighted to be joined by Michelle Clement, lecturer in government studies

at the Strand Group at King's College London, who has just published a new book, The Art

of Delivery, the inside story of how the Blair government transformed Britain's public services, which goes inside the work that Barbara achieved under the

last Labour government. Joining her are Charlotte Pickles, director of the restate think tank

and a former special advisor to Ian Duncan Smith. Alexander Yersad, director of government innovation

at the Tony Blair Institute, and John McTurnon, former political secretary to Tony Blair and a government

special advisor.

So, Michelle, can I start with you?

Can you just explain what the delivery unit was under Michael Barber?

And what do we mean when we talk about delivery in this way?

Hi, yeah, it's great to be here.

So the book, The Art of Delivery, is about how Blair turned rhetoric into reality, essentially.

And, you know, he didn't do it immediately.

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