INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Go...

These are tumultuous times in UK politics. Government is under strain, the civil service is under pressure, and ministers are grappling with the fallout of Covid, the impact of Brexit and an unprecedented cost-of-living crisis. So where is government working well and what is it doing badly? What can be done to make No10, the Treasury and the rest of government function more effectively? And as a general election draws ever nearer, what are the key political and policy dividing lines – and what do they mean for the way this country is run? 

Get behind the scenes in Westminster, Whitehall and beyond on the weekly podcast from Britain’s leading governmental think tank, where we analyse the latest events in politics and explain what they mean. Every week on INSIDE BRIEFING, IfG director Hannah White and the team welcome special guests for a free-ranging conversation on what makes government work – and how to fix it when it doesn’t.

Government
Politics
276
Return to Brexit Island
The IfG Brexit team on the rocky path to Dec 31
32 min
277
Slave To The ’Rithm – Exams crisis fallout
With guest Sonia Sodha of The Observer
29 min
278
Marksism Today: The A Levels Fiasco
With special guest Rafael Behr of The Guardian
44 min
279
Northern Uproar and Overloading the Lords
With guest Jennifer Williams of the Manchester Evening News
41 min
280
The Pain In Spain
With guest Sir Lawrence Freedman, former member of the Iraq War inquiry
39 min
281
Civil Service: Is a Hard Rain really gonna fall?
Plus the Russia Report: what should happen next?
41 min
282
Huawei, Lewis And The News
With special guest GORDON CORERA, BBC Security Correspondent
36 min
283
Rishi’s Groupon Gamble
With guest Rupert Harrison, ex-Chief of Staff to George Osborne
41 min
284
SIR BERNARD JENKIN on the Civil Service’s turbu...
A bonus conversation with Alex Thomas of the IfG
20 min
285
A Good Year For The Roosevelts
With guest Robert Shrimsley of the Financial Times
46 min
286
Resign o’the Times: Mark Sedwill departs
Can you reform the Civil Service in the middle of a crisis?
23 min
287
Let’s Go Outside?
Can Boris Johnson put COVID behind him?
43 min
288
U-Turn When You Don’t Want To
Insourcing probation, assimilating DFiD
35 min
289
COVID: You do the Aftermath
Towards a Corona inquiry with special guest Steve Richards
40 min
290
BONUS: Mark Landler of the NYT extended interview
Our full-length conversation with the New York Times’ London bureau chief
17 min
291
Do the Demoggcracy Conga
With special guests Rowland Manthorpe of SKY and Mark Landler of the NY Times
43 min
292
Should Have Gone To SPAD-Savers
With special guest TIM MONTGOMERIE
42 min
293
BONUS: The roots of America's COVID chaos with ...
An extended version of this week's interview
22 min
294
Back To Life, Back To Reality?
As the COVID lockdown eases, who will share the blame?
47 min
295
On Her Majesty’s Beleagured Service
With special guest Iain Martin of The Times
48 min
296
For Those About To Unlock
With guests Torcuil Crichton and Nick Timmins
42 min
297
“R” Wars against the Phantom Menace
With special guest Lord Gus O’Donnell
43 min
298
Remote control: JACOB REES-MOGG on the Commons ...
A bonus interview with the Leader of the House
18 min
299
Coming to the COVID Crunch
With special guests Danny Finkelstein of The Times and John McTernan
44 min
300
The Impossible Choice
The Guardian’s health editor Sarah Boseley is our guest
47 min