Tag: Catherine Haddon
Book Review: At Power’s Elbow: Aides to the Prime Minister from Robert Walpole to David Cameron
Special Advisers and prime-ministerial aides have come to prominence increasingly over the last decade, with operatives like Alastair Campbell and Andy Coulson frequently making front-page news. But little is generally known about the role itself, what it entails, and how it has developed down the years. Catherine Haddon, in reviewing this new offering from Andrew Blick and George Jones, finds […]
The potential lessons of a contemporary history of Whitehall stretch far and wide
Britain’s Civil Service has been the subject of near constant study, with its permanent nature acting as a repository of information about the day-to-day functioning of our Westminster government. A new study by the Institute for Government and Kings College London, aims to combine an academic approach to research with modern think-tank communication techniques to […]
War, Peace and Parliament: experts respond to the government’s defeat on Syrian intervention
The government’s defeat in the House of Commons on the issue of military intervention represents a constitutional landmark. Although Parliament still lacks any formal war powers, the Prime Minister has pledged to abide by MPs’ decision. In this post, Democratic Audit asks leading parliamentary and constitutional experts for their views on the implications of the […]
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