Liam Byrne MP, Labour's Cabinet Office minister, today warned that Tory cuts in this recession would run deep. Speaking as Gordon Brown MP, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, set out major reforms to improve public services, Liam Byrne said: "Labour are reforming public services to give everyone real help through this downturn and real hope for the future, a future of strong commu...

Liam Byrne MP, Labour's Cabinet Office minister, today warned that Tory cuts in this recession would run deep. Speaking as Gordon Brown MP, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, set out major reforms to improve public services, Liam Byrne said: "Labour are reforming public services to give everyone real help through this downturn and real hope for the future, a future of strong commu...

I've just got back from the launch of The Lab, a new initiative by NESTA to increase innovation in public services (which I’m helping). Gordon Brown turned up, with John Denham and Liam Byrne, to give his blessing and to bang the drum for his own contribution today, the new White Paper by the Cabinet Office on public service reform. The opposition parties have been too quick to dismiss ...

The Prime Minister has outlined a bold vision for transforming England's public services. In a Cabinet Office report “Excellence and fairness: Achieving world class public services” published today, he argues that although public services have improved dramatically over the past decade they are not yet world-class and a new stage of reform is required.

"We made a fetish of choice when actually what we should have been focusing on is how we give people more control over public services they pay their taxes for." Secretary of State at the Cabinet Office Liam Byrne criticises the choice agenda in today's Times.

Generally speaking, the think-tank Reform is on the side of those of us who think that our public services are a pile of shit—although they aim to be a little more contructive than merely observing that our public services are a pile of shit. Their mission is "to set out a better way to deliver public services and economic prosperity." A couple of days ago, I received an email from one Dale ...

In the icy wastes of Hertfordshire yesterday a conference delegate asked a good question. Britain has experienced a financial bubble and an unsustainable house price surge. "Has there also been an unsustainable bubble in the public sector?" It was the task of Liam Byrne, the Blairite-for-Brown Cabinet Office minister, and a clutch of senior public servants to persuade their audience that Labour�...

  Three cheers to Liam Byrne, Cabinet Office Minister, and a guy credited with helping get Number Ten organised. He’s talking up an idea to empower the public and make our grand monolitic public services more accountable to the citizens they serve, using the web. A kind of Trip Advisor model where the public can talk

Interesting ... I'm sat listening to Gordon Brown at the Progress conference at the TUC. He's just said that public services reform - specifically personalisation and greater empowerment of service users - is a key priority for him and will be a major feature in the Queen's Speech. This is ideologically highly significant as in the past Brown has been portrayed as not enthused about the public ser...

Millions of public sector workers will be allowed to leave their jobs and sell back their services, says Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister