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David Willetts, John Redwood, David Miliband and Oliver Letwin all cut their teeth at the Number <strong>10</strong> Policy Unit when David Willetts and Oliver letwin earned their spurs in it, but waned in her final five years. Sarah Hogg was a highly influential head of the unit for John Major, while it reached the height of its powers under David Miliband and Andrew Adonis in the New labour years. A combination of historical circumstances and the proximity or otherwise of the unit’s head to the prime Minister explain how it waxes and wanes. In each era, however, it has always had political appointees in it – until now. 36 | THE HOUSE MAGAZINE | AprIl 2012 In contrast, the strategic function in the centre of Whitehall has not been consistently embodied in a single unit. A Central policy review Staff was created during Edward Heath’s government but it had a chequered history and was undermined by damaging leaks about its work. It was eventually abolished by Margaret Thatcher. Its successor, the prime Minister’s Strategy Unit was created in Tony Blair’s second term from the embryo of the performance and Innovation Unit, the brainchild of
Geoff Mulgan, who became its first head. Its remit was to conduct long-term, crosscutting thinking on policy issues of strategic importance to the UK. It was essentially the strategic brain of Whitehall. It was staffed with a mix of high-flying civil servants and outsiders recruited into the civil service, sometimes on a project-by-project basis. It tended to work with departments, rather than against them, without allowing itself to be captured by the prevailing wisdom or interests of particular ministries. Its power rested on the twin pillars of its proximity It is curious, to say the least, that the Prime Minister should not have had a cadre of political policy advisers to take into No<strong>10</strong> AprIl 2012 | THE HOUSE MAGAZINE | 37
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