Tories are slippery on committing to Government IT reform
Francis Maude is likely to be the man who's responsible for reforming Government IT if the Conservatives win the next general election. He's now Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office.
When he kindly agreed to my requests for an interview he knew he'd be asked about a paper on Government IT reform that the Conservatives had published in December 2009.
For me the big unanswered questions were: would the Tories would commit unequivocally to implement change? Or would they merely express an intention to implement change and, if they won power, quietly drop their plans in the face of opposition from Sir Humphrey?
The interview with Maude went as expected though: he was articulate and personable; and he committed the Conservatives to nothing.
If anything he affirmed the wisdom of political columnist George Will who said that the most important four words in politics are "up to a point".
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