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12 May 2026

Devo minister quits

Miatta Fahnbulleh has handed in her resignation and urged the prime minister to set out a timetable for “an orderly transition”.
Ms Fahnbulleh, who was…[more...]

12 May 2026

Counting what matters: an interview with PAC chair Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown chairs the hardest-working committee in parliament. But hard work is nothing without results, as he tells PF. [more...]

12 May 2026

New Councillors, Same Pressures: IFS warns councils face unchanged funding challenges

The wave of new councillors elected across England last week inherits a local government finance picture that is deeply constrained – and unlikely to improve quickly,… [more...]

12 May 2026

Voting system producing 'wildly unrepresentative' results, campaigners say

Last week’s council elections have thrown the distortions of the First Past the Post voting system into sharp relief, the Electoral Reform Society (ERS) argue. [more...]

12 May 2026

Policymakers urged to scrutinise AI productivity claims

Claims that AI will deliver significant productivity gains in the public sector are shaping major spending decisions, but the evidence underpinning them is often weak and… [more...]