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The Cabinet Secretary has announced a sweeping review of the Civil Service. But there have been 17 attempts to reform government since 1968. Not one has made a lasting change. What keeps going wrong – and can this time really be different? Here are the six things the Government must get right.

✍️Tim Knox & Nada Kakabadse

Why every Whitehall reform ends in failure 17 attempts to reform government since 1968. Not one has worked

'Growth cannot be ordered from the top down – it can only be nurtured from the bottom up,' says Andy Burnham. He's right. But if he means it, he should follow the example of two Labour parties who used the insight to unleash their economies: New Zealand and Australia in the 1980s.

✍️Roger Partridge

Labour can be a party of growth – but not like this Andy Burnham should start asking why wealth isn't being created

It received less media attention than many of his more eye-catching announcements, but yesterday Andy Burnham stated that under his premiership, British firms would be favoured for government contracts. It would be a costly mistake: bad value for taxpayers, corrupting for the favoured firms and infuriating to some of our closest allies.

✍️Ben Ramanauskas

Burnham's Buy British plan could kill his EU dreams An official preference for domestic firms also risks a US trade war