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Simon Case will be gone within a few months, and a successor needs to be found.<\/p>\n
And other appointments in Downing Street still need to be made.<\/p>\n
Becoming prime minister not only involves working out which levers to pull to get things done, but also where those levers are.<\/p>\n
\u201cKeir doesn\u2019t know what good looks like,\u201d is how one figure put it to me.<\/p>\n
While we know she has her internal detractors, supporters of Sue Gray say this is precisely what she is good at.<\/p>\n
But other key appointments need sorting and quickly, others say, to get things properly going.<\/p>\n
This government has barely been around long enough to properly audit what it is up to or where it is heading \u2013 we will be better placed to do that at next year\u2019s conference.<\/p>\n
But buffeted by the recent rows about staffing, freebies and cutting the winter fuel payment for millions of pensioners, little wonder there will be a riff in Sir Keir’s about things the government has done already.<\/p>\n
Then, there will be the forward looking stuff.<\/p>\n
The focus will be domestic policy as he will save talk of foreign affairs for a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Thursday.<\/p>\n
He will want to sketch out the landscape for his first year and beyond in office.<\/p>\n
To come, they have their new industrial strategy, the spending review for the next financial year and then, next spring, the spending review for the two years after that.<\/p>\n
The next staging post beyond today is next month\u2019s Budget.<\/p>\n
There have been hints here ministers are toying with tweaking the various self imposed rules they set themselves to allow perhaps a bit more scope for longer term spending.<\/p>\n
The Budget, as one minister put it, \u201cwill allow energy to come back into the room\u201d.<\/p>\n
Today will be about the prime minister attempting to articulate that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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