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Camilla Cavendish

Contributing editor and columnist
A former head of the Downing Street policy unit under Prime Minister David Cameron, she is a senior fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School, and advises the UK Department of Health and Social Care

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  • Friday, 5 March, 2021
    UK Budget
    Rishi Sunak’s un-Tory Budget confounds assumptions once again

    Conservatives endure in office because they are pragmatic — the chancellor is no exception

  • Friday, 26 February, 2021
    UK Inequality
    Levelling up tests Johnson’s ‘Heineken’ credentials

    Refreshing the parts of the UK blighted by inequality is a once in a generation challenge

  • Friday, 19 February, 2021
    UK devolution
    A new constitutional deal would avert the UK’s break-up

    Disaster looms unless Johnson acts to save the 300-year-old Anglo-Scottish Union

  • Friday, 12 February, 2021
    Health Care
    A reformed NHS should be accountable to the public

    Bureaucracy in the UK health system has boomed under the cover of market-driven policies

  • Friday, 5 February, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Claims of intergenerational warfare over Covid-19 are overblown

    The pandemic has exacerbated divisions but people are also pulling together

  • Friday, 29 January, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Personal liberty is another, unsung victim of the pandemic

    Governments must restore these freedoms when the virus is eventually beaten

  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
    Ageing Populations
    Covid shows that ageing is like a disease — we should treat it accordingly

    Scientists are working on a new generation of therapies which could prolong years of healthy life

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    Mental health
    Young people’s mental health must be a priority this lockdown

    For some children the pandemic will build resilience, but many others will bear scars

  • Friday, 8 January, 2021
    Coronavirus treatment
    Red tape and fear threaten the Covid vaccination effort

    Governments must focus on speed, openness and innovation — some signs so far are not encouraging

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  • Friday, 1 January, 2021
    Brexit
    With Brexit ‘done’, Britain must rebuild trust in Europe

    It would be a grave mistake for UK ministers to continue with the macho English exceptionalist tone

  • Friday, 11 December, 2020
    Brexit
    On Brexit, the Tories have fallen prey to magical thinking

    Ministers still wish away hard trade-offs without a clear vision for prosperity if there is no deal

  • Friday, 4 December, 2020
    University of Cambridge
    Mandated ‘respect’ for others’ opinions hurts free speech

    A polite but deadly serious Cambridge university row over the issue shows the need for ‘tolerance’ instead

  • Friday, 27 November, 2020
    UK government spending
    The Tories cannot avoid the tax question forever

    Despite an ‘economic emergency’ the UK government is largely sticking to its pre-Covid manifesto

  • Friday, 20 November, 2020
    Climate change
    Green jobs must materialise if the UK is to lead the world in wind power

    The government needs to be ruthless about onshoring manufacturing as it weans the economy off carbon

  • Friday, 13 November, 2020
    Climate change
    Climate diplomacy is winning its fight against a zero-sum mindset

    There is growing international realisation that acting decisively is an investment not a cost

  • Friday, 6 November, 2020
    UK Government
    It is pure folly that Johnson isn’t listening to business

    At a time like this, the UK government should be working hand in hand with industry

  • Friday, 30 October, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    We must keep our heads and accept Covid is here for the long term

    The UK government cannot combat the virus effectively if it continues to react on an emergency footing

  • Friday, 23 October, 2020
    Coronavirus economic impact
    Boris Johnson is mishandling the northern lockdowns

    There is a fatal disconnect between Whitehall’s policies and reality for businesses on the ground

  • Friday, 16 October, 2020
    UK universities
    Students bear the brunt of a public health panic

    Some politicians and college leaders are displaying an unforgivable inhumanity

  • Friday, 9 October, 2020
    Coronavirus economic impact
    Boris Johnson’s grandiosity is sliding into imprudence

    The UK government needs to get real about the crisis if confidence is to return

  • Friday, 2 October, 2020
    Education
    Vocation, vocation should be UK middle class’s new mantra

    Technical skills and vocational training may be worth more than a university education

  • Friday, 25 September, 2020
    Coronavirus economic impact
    Scaremongering will damage the UK’s fragile economy

    Ministers should think harder about the best way to slow the spread of Covid-19

  • Friday, 18 September, 2020
    Climate change
    Political division makes the fight against climate change ever harder

    Tackling extreme weather should be as obvious an imperative as Covid-19 — we must change the argument

  • Friday, 11 September, 2020
    Brexit
    State aid is the wrong Brexit hill to die on

    Why stall an EU trade deal by tinkering with an issue where the UK has a poor record?

  • Friday, 4 September, 2020
    Civil Service UK
    An agile UK civil service needs more than ‘Star Trek’ screens

    Things will still blow up in the government’s whizzy new, data-rich command centre

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