Britain’s government has bashed and battered institutions over the past two years, but has not remade or reformed them
negotiator, is seeking to renegotiate the divorce treaty, and the promised new relationship with Europe is nowhere in sight.trade deals have been replicated but no big new deals signed. Nor, to Lord Frost’s frustration, has regulation diverged fromMr Cummings had started work on new subsidy and procurement rules and a looser immigration regime for scientists, but since his exit in late 2020 policy innovation has ground to a halt.
As for levelling up, what started as an aspiration to close the productivity gap between north and south has become a slogan for almost any state activity outside London. A policy paper has been delayed. Ministers disagree on devolution. Having promised an infrastructure boom, last month Mr Johnson cut backThe government has bashed and battered institutions, but not remade or reformed them. Mr Cummings hankered to break up the civil service, and his tenure saw some senior figures squeezed out.
But the main culprits are in Downing Street, which is as callow as the leaked video of staff sniggering about a cheese-and-wine party suggests. Ministers want Mr Johnson to draft in an old hand to lead its inexperienced staff. Mr Cummings wanted it to be a panopticon, monitoring Whitehall performance from a-style control room. Instead it is kept in the dark by ministers and preoccupied with internal politics.
Far from matching Margaret Thatcher in transformation and vision, Mr Johnson is proving less dynamic than David Cameron, his rival at Eton and Oxford. Mr Cameron’s career ended in ignominy after he called, and lost, a referendum on Europe, but he made significant reforms to education, devolution and the civil service. It is neither scandals over cheese-and-wine parties, nor even the risk of electoral defeat, that keeps Tory radicals awake at night.
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