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
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Putin’s War - Can Sanctions Work?
39 min
177
Playing Chicken With Kyiv
37 min
178
Director’s Annual Lecture 2022
With IfG Director Bronwen Maddox, plus New Statesman political editor Stephen Bush and former Justice Secretary Sir David Lidington
78 min
179
Send In The Not Complete Clowns
38 min
180
Sir John Major: In Democracy We Trust?
The former Prime Minister’s keynote speech on standards in British democracy
64 min
181
It’s a Shame About Gray
35 min
182
Ukraine on the Brink
37 min
183
Dog Fights and Defections
35 min
184
24 Hour Work Event People
36 min
185
It takes Inflation of Billions to Hold us back
47 min
186
2021: Groundhog Year
As New Year dawns, the IfG panel look back to the future
43 min
187
Peppa Pig Strikes Back: What fiction and fanta...
35 min
188
One Hell of a Kicking for Boris Johnson
North Shropshire by-election with special guest Jack Blanchard of Politico
32 min
189
Ain’t no Party like a Number 10 Party
44 min
190
Why Does It Always Rayn On Keir?
33 min
191
“Is everything OK, Prime Minister?”
40 min
192
Sleaze into Another Week
36 min
193
“Not Remotely A Corrupt Country”
38 min
194
A Massive Owen Goal
34 min
195
Budget post-mortem: A new age of optimism?
41 min
196
Budget Review: Have Your Twix and Eat It
27 min
197
Budget Preview: Rishi Business
49 min
198
The David Amess murder: Will politics change?
41 min
199
Brexit: An Early Frost
<p>As the EU produces sweeping new proposals on previous red-line issues, can the Government really rewrite the <strong>Northern Ireland Protocol</strong> to everyone’s satisfaction? If Britain always intended to sign now and ditch it later, what will that do future relations with the EU? Plus, we read every page of the <strong>Coronavirus: Lessons Learned</strong> report to tease out what really matters. <strong>Adam Payne</strong> of <a href="http://politicshome.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">politicshome.com</a> is our guest.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><ul><li><em>“Will Johnson ever be able to say that Brexit is done? It’s more a case of, will he ever WANT to say that Brexit is done?”</em><strong> – Jill Rutter</strong></li><li><em>“Any future COVID inquiry will inevitably be hugely damaging to the Conservative brand –&nbsp;but this report is not going to damage this particular government.”</em><strong> –&nbsp;Adam Payne</strong></li><li><em>“It’s amazing that a report covering perhaps the biggest public health failure ever is a one-day news story.”</em><strong> –&nbsp;Jill Rutter</strong></li><li><em>“From the COVID report there’s perhaps too much emphasis on the advice and not enough on the political decision-making.” </em><strong>– Tom Sasse</strong></li></ul><p><br></p><p>Presented by Bronwen Maddox with Joe Marshall, Jill Rutter and Tom Sasse. Audio production by Alex Rees. <strong>Inside Briefing is a Podmasters Production for the IfG.&nbsp;</strong></p><br><p><a href="https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk</a>&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
30 min
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The Boris in the Bubble
Plus German coalitions with guest John Kampfner
41 min