A01=David Freud
Author_David Freud
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- ISBN 9781910533529
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jun 2021
- Publisher: Nine Elms Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The introduction of Universal Credit arguably stands as the most far-reaching reform so far this century. Clashing Agendas is the traumatic inside story of how this simple concept became unimaginably complicated in execution, and then nearly self-destructed, told by David Freud, who was the Minister for Welfare Reform responsible for the transformation.
David's initial welfare proposals in 2007, commissioned by the Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair in one of his last political initiatives, proved popular across all political parties. When the Conservatives came calling, David Freud accepted the job of reforming the system, initially in the shadow ministerial team and then in Government.
His core motivation was to end the welfare trap, by which the legacy systems made it difficult for many people to free themselves from dependency on the state.
This personal account reveals the complex interplay between politicians and civil servants - the true determinant of how Government really works.
It concludes with his views both on future development of the welfare system and on how the UK Government might organise itself to introduce major system reforms more successfully in future.
David Freud entered the twin realms of politics and welfare in late 2006 when he was asked by the outgoing regime of Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair to write a report on reforming welfare to work. The commission was based on his reputation in the investment banking world, where he had worked for 20 years for the leading UK player Warburg (absorbed into UBS), retiring as vice-chairman of investment banking at the end of 2003. Previously he had spent 11 years as a journalist, ending up writing the Lex Column on the Financial Times. He was born in 1950 in London, is married, has three children and (so far) five grandchildren.
