After Guido revealed that a zany Civil Service unit was trying to train government staff through clay modelling, it may be shut down. Quick turnaround…
The Telegraph followed Guido’s story yesterday and found additionally that the Policy Lab did an outreach programme on popular game Grand Theft Auto V. A “Whitehall source” told the paper that the unit, established in 2014 under Cameron, should be shut down: “This sort of nonsense is exactly the kind of Tory hangover this Government wants to root out… ministers did not sign off these projects and don’t want to see taxpayers’ money wasted on video games when there are bigger problems the public care about.” Punchy…
Another government source said: “This is a decades old Tory initiative that we are now looking into.” Policy Lab used to sit in the Cabinet Office until it moved to the Department for Education in 2020. It was founded with a few hundred thousand pounds in running costs in order to “provide an experimental environment for testing and evaluating new ways to make policy.” Which has since evolved into playing with clay…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”