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How do you write policy advice that a minister will actually read?
Our last brief was twenty-eight pages. I am fairly sure nobody opened it.
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And give them the decision, not the options. Three options with no recommendation is homework, and it gets put down.
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One page. The recommendation first, the reasoning second, the evidence in an annex nobody has to read. Most policy writing puts these in exactly the wrong order.
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We wrote twenty-eight pages of annex and called it a brief. That is the problem stated plainly.
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