Andrew Adonis

Labour’s plan for Great British Railways is spot on. The track had to be nationalised by the Blair govt after the private company collapsed. The same now happening to train operators whose costs/profits are excessive with plummeting service standards. Time to put passengers first

The government has failed renters—and homeowners, writes @Andrew_Adonis "The UK has nearly 10m fewer homes than France, for a population not much smaller, and we are building new homes at only about half the rate of the French." prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/the-i…

There’s nothing illegal or surreptitious about the immigration surge since Brexit, writes @Andrew_Adonis—“it is the result of open, deliberate decisions by prime ministers since Theresa May”. prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/64102…

Allowing Putin to dismember Ukraine would create a new Berlin Wall dividing Europe—and threaten UK security and democracy, writes @AndrewAdonis. prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/63872/do…

Huge

Sunak hasn’t visited Kyiv this year. Let’s hope that absence makes the heart grow fonder, since the going in Ukraine is set only to get tougher if victory against Putin is to be secured. My Prospect column prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/63872/do…

My full response to Sunak & critics of HS2 who trashed Britain’s future 🧵 You would think, from Sunak & the media, that HS2 was dead & deserved its fate. But as HS2’s main architect back in 2009/10 I only wish Labour had stayed stayed in office long enough to see it through 1/

both a new government—& a new cabinet secretary. As in 1916, the new leaders of the state—both the prime minister and the cabinet secretary—have a massive task to rebuild a crippled machine, and it can’t start a moment too soon.

of civil service drive and morale. Case’s failure to stand up for Tom Scholar, the Treasury permanent secretary fired by Liz Truss on her third day in office, was in retrospect an especial low point, signalling the storm to come.  

So in 2024 there will in all likelihood be

Wanted: a cabinet secretary - 🧵 from my @prospect column Like so much of the British constitution, the job of cabinet secretary isn’t defined in law & changes according to the holder. But to all intents and purposes it is vacant at the moment, & that is a first—and a problem.