Louise Haigh: “For too long, [public] procurement has tried to tick too many boxes.”

There needs to be a proper beefed up economic unit in number 10 that both the prime minister and the chancellor have access to, and that can give the prime minister a full suite of advice when they’re making these huge decisions that…

To pretend that I hadn’t told him and to brief so consistently and so viciously for quite a number of weeks after that was a deliberate attempt to knock my character down.

This reform is central to restoring confidence that the system does not favour those able to structure their income over those earning through work.

You only had to open the papers most days to read the vicious briefing that was happening, the horrible way they would talk about our colleagues to journalists.