David Cameron's team of policy strategists is being "embedded" in Whitehall departments to fashion a "happy narrative" of reform from an austere spending review

David Cameron has promised a shift in power from government to the people today as Whitehall departments published business plans setting out what they intend to do and how voters can hold them accountable for it.

Full marks for the claims of David Cameron to have torn away the cloak of secrecy from Whitehall's rich list of 170 people earning more than £150,000, writes Sue Cameron

Before you demand more blood, consider the often moving account given by a Whitehall insider of what happened in Downing Street following the 1974 election, writes Sue Cameron

Sue Cameron asks if Whitehall is shaping up to launch a coup of its own after this year's general election

David Cameron, who takes great pride in his first class degree from Oxford, is about to meet his match in the form of Sir Gus O'Donnell, the cabinet secretary. A sharp operator who has won the confidence of John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown during his career, O'Donnell will meet Cameron in the new year to kick-start a lengthy process in which the Tories will brief the Whitehall mac...

DAVID Cameron has ordered the head of the civil service to review contacts between the media and Whitehall departments in the wake of the phone- hacking scandal.

A report written by some of Whitehall's most senior people and due to be formally launched today could be called The Mandarins' Revenge, writes Sue Cameron

David Cameron could inherit a dysfunctional Whitehall machine unable to deliver his programme if he wins the general election, a damning report into the state of the civil service under Gordon Brown concludes

There seems to be a certain scepticism about Tory plans to give business greater sway over Whitehall, a move that could give outsiders rights to demand the sacking of top civil servants, says Sue Cameron