Year 2(9): Management of the Policy Group reports

Recommendation 9: It is vital that the party anticipates the difficulties that are going to be presented by the gap of time between the Policy Reviews reporting and the leadership deciding which recommendations to embrace.  Team Cameron have reacted quickly to the Tax and Social Justice reports – shunning one and embracing the other.  Will they be able to react so quickly in future?  If not, how will they deal with the Labour offensive against more controversial policy group recommendations that may need some defence?

Comments

[malcolm]

Too true. Unless we are very lucky it is likely that some of the policy groups will offer contradictory advice.Then it will be time for some hard decisions to be made.I hope the leadership will be well prepared...

[HF]

Also the disagreement over HRA and Ken Clarke's work.

Agree with ConHome we need to do a much better job on this.

[Richard Carey]

Can't disagree with this one. I am concerned that although it is probably right to keep the policy groups operating one step removed from the leadership, we need to ensure that there is adequate support with communications etc for report launches and so on. There will always be someone who spins these reports in a way you don't like, so lets tie this one in the point about with improving our media operations.

[David Belchamber]

I agree but isn't it Oliver Letwin's job to ensure that all proposed policies "cohere"?