Louise Haigh

First Secretary of State, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office — Labour

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Deflector Scapegoat: Delivery failures / Whitehall inertia

Latest Incident

Latest: The government is increasingly realising how damaging outsourcing has been - Civil Service World — scored 8 (lucid) on 2026-10-06

Score History

Cope Entries (19)

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8
The government is increasingly realising how damaging outsourcing has been - Civil Service World lucid
"Louise Haigh announced an Insourcing Unit at the heart of government to accelerate bringing outsourced public services back in-house, arguing outsourcing has been a damaging failure."

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18
UK Cabinet Minister Concedes Post-Brexit Settlement Is Failing Britain - azat.tv lucid
"The current post-Brexit EU settlement is not working for Britain, pointing to deep-seated structural issues in the economy, border management, and security."

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12
Labour backing British shipyards with £115 million research ship as part of the drive to reindustrialise UK - stephenmorgan.org.uk lucid
"Louise Haigh announced £115 million of government funding for a new research ship to support British shipyards, create jobs, and drive UK reindustrialisation."

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35
McLaren £500m investment 'can help address Woking Neets issue' - BBC News deflection
"Louise Haigh says McLaren's £500m UK investment creating 1,000 jobs by 2032 is a 'huge opportunity' to help address the near one million UK NEETs."

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68
McLaren £500m investment 'can help address Woking Neets issue' - BBC fantasy_economics
"McLaren's £500m investment creating 1,000 jobs by 2032 represents a 'huge opportunity' to address the near one million UK young people not in employment, education or training."

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31
Civil Service World deflection
"Haigh claims that the government is ending Whitehall centralisation by transferring power and resources to local communities."

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32
GOV.UK deflection
"Louise Haigh claims Westminster's days of hoarding power are over and that the government has begun the biggest transfer of power and resources in a generation to local communities."

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15
LabourList lucid
"Louise Haigh announced that £90bn of public procurement contracts will be reweighted to favour better employment conditions, job creation and local economic impact, signalling intent to rebalance the economy and reset the capital-labour relationship."

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32
Arts Professional deflection
"Government procurement has been a tick-box exercise that fails to deliver local economic benefits; new rules will ensure £90bn in contracts supports British jobs, skills and communities in every postcode."

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22
edie.net lucid
"Government procurement reform will ensure £90bn of annual spending supports British jobs, skills and communities in every postcode, moving away from a tick-box approach."

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22
ADS Advance deflection
"Government procurement should benefit local communities, create jobs and skills, and current procurement is a tick-box exercise that will be reformed."

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18
Civil Service World lucid
"Government procurement should benefit local communities by creating good jobs and skills, and has previously been a tick-box exercise failing to deliver tangible local change."

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15
BBC News lucid
"Public procurement should be reformed so every pound of taxpayer money creates local jobs and skills opportunities for young people."

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38
Wired-Gov deflection
"Reforming government procurement rules so every pound of taxpayer money benefits local communities, creates good jobs, and gives young people skills, replacing a failed 'tick box exercise'."

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28
PAYadvice.UK deflection
"Public spending should benefit local communities through procurement reform, creating jobs and skills, replacing a previous 'tick box' contracting approach."

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18
The Guardian lucid
"Public procurement (£90bn) should be weighted toward job creation and skills for young people, benefitting local communities, rather than prioritising green/social targets."

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10
GOV.UK lucid
"Public spending should benefit local communities through jobs and skills, and the old procurement system was a tick-box exercise that failed to deliver visible improvement."

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60
No10 North open for business deflection
"No10 North has been set up to drive economic growth in every postcode and put power in the hands of every community."

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42
New Economics Foundation deflection
"Louise Haigh has argued for better coordination between the Bank of England and the Treasury to reduce the fiscal costs of monetary policy, including slowing quantitative tightening and ending unnecessary Treasury payments to the Bank."
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