Cover bad government

From the corridors of Downing Street under Thatcher and Blair to a career spent pushing government to work better from the outside, Caroline Slocock has spent four decades watching Whitehall up close. Please register below to join Caroline, author of the newly published Bad Government (And How to Make It Better), and Vicky Pryce, Chair of Radix Big Tent, for another interactive Radix Big Tent Meet the Leaders webinar at 6.00pm on Thursday 8th October.

Part memoir, part manifesto, Bad Government draws on Caroline’s decades at the top of Whitehall, as a civil servant in the Cabinet Office and Treasury under both Thatcher and Blair, to explain why British politics so often fails to deliver, and what could be done differently. ‘She knows where the bodies are buried,’ writes John Crace in The Guardian. ‘Bad Government is required reading for everyone interested in why UK politics feels broken.’

Join Vicky and Caroline as they discuss what four decades inside and alongside government reveal about the changes Britain needs now.

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