The Pain In Spain

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government · Jul 31, 2020 · 39m

The Government’s emergency Spanish quarantine: decisive action, poor planning or a failure to understand what working life is really like? With the inevitable Public Inquiry into Coronavirus now confirmed, special guest Sir Lawrence Freedman – emeritus professor of War Studies at Kings College London and a former member of the Iraq War inquiry – tells us how to run an effective inquiry. And is No.10’s proposed US-style spokesperson designed to help Boris Johnson dodge real scrutiny?

“The Government is desperate to be seen to react quickly to combat the perception that in the early days of…