Francis Maude

This is the Speaker’s Lecture delivered by Francis Maude on the subject of ‘The Future of the Civil Service’. I’m going to start with two quotes.  One is from a leading civil servant; the other from a politician. First: Our system of a permanent politically impartial Civil Service is one of the jewels in Britain’s

Where next for Tory modernisation? The first point is that it never ends. The Conservative party could not have survived and thrived as the longest standing and most successful political party in history without continually updating ourselves. Modernisation is one of our most important traditions. The second point is that modernising is not ideological. Still