Starmer’s Trump diplomacy and Darren Jones’s fast fixes

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government · Jan 21, 2026 · 37m

In a week when Donald Trump has been escalating his threats to NATO member states over Greenland, Darren Jones was on the home front ensuring that the government’s desire to transform government was also continuing. So what is the Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister planning? Is it enough to meet the challenges he has identified, and what will they need to do to actually see change? We get stuck into the latest government reform plans, joined by Francis Maude, a previous minister for civil service reform.

And of course it is still 2026, it is still January. So Donald Trump is still…