Interesting news just in from the Treasury. Apparently, Gordon Brown has recommended the Treasury's Chief Macroeconomist and Director of the Macroeconomics and Fiscal Policy Group, Dave Ramsden for promotion after an "external contest".
Ramsden has been one of Brown's senior civil servant as far as I can tell since 1998, and between 1999 and 2003 he was in charge of assessing Brown's "five economic tests" on Euro membership (a job in which he came up with the right answer if what we know about Brown's view of the Euro is correct).
His promotion is to become the Managing Director of the Treasury's new Macroeconomic and Fiscal Policy Directorate and joint Head of the Government Economic Service. In other words he finds himself in two roles, one directing fiscal and macroeconomic policy at the Treasury, and the other with official arms spreading out across Government.
Gordon Brown is not a centraliser though.
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Surely Dizzy you welcome any rationalisation of jobs, roles and salaries to reduce the burdensome proliferation of the civil service and advisory mafias?
Rationalisation my arse.
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