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How can Steve Barclay be No 10 chief of staff and remain a minister?

The shakeup at No 10 looks likely to lead to parallel lines of accountability and a lack of clarity about who is in charge of what.

By Jill Rutter

How can Steve Barclay be No 10 chief of staff and remain a minister?

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Holding a shameless government to account

Armando Iannucci and Ian Hislop on the accountability crisis in UK politics

100 days of solitude: how has the new Conservative government governed?

How have David Cameron's 100 days of majority government been?

By Jill Rutter

Yes, Prime Minister: why the civil service must give PMs room for long-term thinking

The capacity for longer-term, cross-cutting policy development has to be part of the core offer the Cabinet Secretary makes…

By Jill Rutter

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