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Gray Goes Gracefully?
With Sue Gray making headlines again, the IfG podcast team are joined by former Conservative MP Sir David Lidington to make sense of a big Whitehall and Westminster career move and ask what it might mean for Labour and the civil service.
Plus:
What do Matt Hancock's WhatsApp messages tell us about how government works – and how it didn't during the pandemic?
How did Rishi Sunak come up with a Brexit deal that seems to please everyone – except maybe Boris Johnson and the DUP – and is the Windsor Framework actually any good?
And why doesn't the centre of government seem to work very well? The…
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