Prof Christopher Hood is Gladstone Professor of Government at All Souls College, University of Oxford. Here he responds to opening remarks by Sir Michael Barber, author of “How to Run a Government: So That Citizens Benefit and Taxpayers Don’t Go Crazy.” The event was chaired by Dr Mara Airoldi, organised by the Blavatnik School of Government, and held in the T.S. Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College, University of Oxford.
