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Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government
The first Labour government in 14 years is facing a daunting to-do list and complex challenges at every turn. Public services are under strain. The civil service is under pressure. And ministers must deliver the government’s missions and milestones. But could Keir Starmer’s plan to “rewire the British state” – through using AI and creating a “start-up” culture – turn these challenges into opportunities? So where is government working well and what is it doing badly? What can be done to make…
Episodes
- Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government
Reading the runes of Reshuffle Day with Gavin Barwell
When Sajid Javid quit as Chancellor it served up an unexpected vintage Reshuffle Day. But do big ministerial resignations really come as a surprise to the…
Inside Briefing with the Institute for GovernmentBONUS: Gina Miller – “Parliamentary sovereignty is much more important than Brexit”
An extended version of our interview with high-profile Remainer turned constitution campaigner GINA MILLER. She explains how she’s staying in the…
- Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government
Getting Away With It? How to scrutinise an all-powerful Government
Where has all the scrutiny gone, long time passing…? As the Government wields its apparently unassailable majority, who will be the thorn on the Government’s…
- Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government
BONUS: Gisela Stuart – “I didn’t realise how deep the grievance of Remain voters was.”
In an extended version of her interview on this week’s podcast, leading light of Leave GISELA STUART tells Cath Haddon what it was really like inside the…
- Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government
Home and Huawei: Will Boris pass his first post-Brexit test?
As Britain finally leaves the EU, the vastness of the Brexit task ahead becomes clearer. Special guest PETER FOSTER, Europe Editor of the Telegraph (and soon…
- Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government
What works in Whitehall – and what doesn’t?
Blood runs cold in Westminster as the IfG hands down its annual judgment on government efficiency, the Whitehall Monitor. Who gets an A-Star, who has room to…
- Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government
The Leverage Report
Who’s really got the whip hand during Britain’s post-Brexit negotiations with the EU? Special guest RACHEL SYLVESTER of The Times joins us to look at whether…
Inside Briefing with the Institute for GovernmentBONUS: Jonathan Powell – “What I discovered in No.10 is how LITTLE power you have”
“You need to persuade the Civil Service. Attacking them is not the way to do it.” As Tony Blair’s Chief of Staff during the New Labour years, Jonathan Powell…
- Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government
Revolution Number Ten
Dominic Cummings wants to make “seismic” changes to the way government works. Can the PM’s supreme advisor pull off such radical transformations in short…
- Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government
Get with the programme? Johnson’s new era of government
It’s the second Queens Speech in two months, with perhaps more changes than we expected. Will Boris Johnson’s huge majority mean he can deliver on his election…
- Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government
Holyrood vs. Westminster: A Scottish Independence Special Edition
PODCAST EXTRA: As the SNP sweeps Scotland in the General Election, can the Union survive? And with Holyrood and Westminster on a collision course, will Nicola…
- Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government
Johnson unbound? Election results special
It’s the general election result we half-expected – but few thought it would upset politics on such a seismic scale. Aside from the party tumult, will Boris…
- Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government
Election: The Final Countdown
As the General Election goes down to the wire, we’re joined by special guest Sebastian Payne of the Financial Times to look at campaign control freakery and…
- Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government
Inside the Manifestos
This week on the podcast that explains the way that government works (and why it often doesn’t)... The IfG team are joined by New Statesman political editor…
- Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government
A Guide to the Constitutional Galaxy
This week on the podcast that takes you inside the way that government works and sometimes doesn’t.. The IfG team are joined by David Allen Green to discuss…
- Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government
Getting Stuff Done: Why it’s always harder than you think
This week on the podcast that takes you inside the way that government works (or doesn’t): Labour has massive plans for Britain but what do they need to do to…
- Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government
A firehose of public spending?
This week on the podcast that looks at how Government works, and sometimes doesn’t… Both major parties are promising massive public spending if they win the…
- Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government
Parliament’s wake-up call for Government, the future of tax and David Lidington MP
As the 2017-2019 Parliament ends and Britain girds itself for a General Election, how will this Parliament be viewed by history? Has it perhaps done its job…
- Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government
Inside the Election stalemate – plus leading Brexiter Graham Brady MP
“It’s a ‘yes, but’. But that ‘yes, but’ is political gold-dust…” This week on the podcast that explains how government works (and often doesn’t)… Boris Johnson…
- Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government
Inside the Brexit endgame – plus Hilary Benn MP
How can we make government work more effectively? What are Brexit and the current political tumult doing to our institutions? What needs to change in our…