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Government 2025 at The IfG: Darren Jones Keynote Speech

Published: 22 January 2025 at 11:56 UTC

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Episode notes

In a speech at the IfG this week, Darren Jones MP, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, insisted that “we are long overdue a reckoning with government spending and a realistic appraisal of how we're using taxpayers' money."

 

So what is Jones planning? Where might the spending cuts fall? How can AI – the so-called Chat HMTGPT – help deliver Whitehall savings? And what will Jones be doing to embed the government’s mission-led approach into the spending review?

 

After his speech, Darren Jones was in conversation with Hannah White.

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