Latest Uk government Podcast Episodes
Rishi vs. The Rebels
INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government - January 19, 2024 09:58 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsRishi Sunak’s controversial Rwanda legislation has made its way through the House of Commons, but at what cost to his authority? Peter Ricketts, the UK’s first national security adviser, joins the podcast team to discuss Sunak’s battles with his MPs, his looming battles with the House of Lords, a...
The Post Office scandal: Trouble on the horizon
INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government - January 12, 2024 12:01 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe Post Office scandal has been described by Rishi Sunak as one of greatest miscarriages of justice in UK history – so who is responsible, and is the government’s response the right one? Adam Boulton, former political editor of Sky News, joins the podcast to discuss how the faulty Horizon softwa...
2024 Preview Special: Let election battles commence
INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government - January 04, 2024 04:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings2024 is going to be quite some year for politics. A general election is no more than a year away. The Conservatives are still a long way behind in the polls, but has Keir Starmer done enough to convince people to vote for Labour? What are they key dates to look out for over the next 12 months? Wh...
Christmas Special: The IfG Fantasy Cabinet
INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government - December 29, 2023 11:22 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsHave you opened all your presents and need something to lift your flagging festive spirits? Perhaps those in-laws are staying a little longer than you’d like and you’re looking for a little audio escape? Or maybe you need a political fix to get you through the holidays... but you’re not quite rea...
The IfG Review of 2023: Posturing and panicking, poison and paranoia
INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government - December 21, 2023 04:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSo that was the year that was. Just the one prime minister this time, but plenty of political drama and intrigue, twists and turns, and high and lows. David Runciman, the former host of the Talking Politics podcast, joins the IfG team to look back on the last 12 months. How did Rishi Sunak’s five...
Rishi Sunak’s unhappy Five Families
INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government - December 16, 2023 10:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWhile five groups of right wing Conservative MPs – the so-called “Five Families” – have not been making life easy for the prime minister, Rishi Sunak’s controversial immigration bill made its way through the Commons without one Tory rebelling. But is the real fight still to come? Politico’s Esthe...
Was this Rishi Sunak's worst week yet?
INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government - December 08, 2023 11:17 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsRobert Jenrick has resigned as immigration minister, former home secretary Suella Braverman says the Rwanda Bill will lose the Conservatives the next election, and the prime minister has been forced hold an emergency – and rather tetchy – press conference to defend his plan. So how big a crisis i...
Sunak’s Captain Marble act falls flat
INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government - December 01, 2023 10:33 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsNobody predicted a massive diplomatic bust-up with Greece, so is Rishi Sunak losing his marbles? PoliticsHome editor Laura Silver joins the podcast team to catch up on the extraordinary row over the Elgin Marbles. Access talks – the moment that opposition parties begin meeting the civil service a...
Autumn Statement of Intent?
INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government - November 24, 2023 07:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsJeremy Hunt has framed the autumn statement as the biggest tax cut in British history, but do the chancellor's sums add up? The podcast team crunch the numbers and discuss what Hunt's big day in Parliament told us about the state of the economy, what the government is trying to do, and when the n...
Sunak's flights of fantasy?
INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government - November 17, 2023 09:57 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe Supreme Court's verdict has left the government's Rwanda asylum policy in tatters - but Rishi Sunak says he has a plan to get planes taking off by the spring. So what is the prime minister proposing, and is there any chance it will work? That won't be a job for Suella Braverman, with the con...
LIGHTS! CAMERON! RESHUFFLE ACTION!
INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government - November 13, 2023 17:27 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe reshuffle rumour mill went into overdrive over the weekend, and on Monday morning Rishi Sunak kicked off a day of sackings - and surprise appointments. So the IfG team wolfed down their breakfasts, raced to the office, and assembled in the podcast studio for an emergency recording of Inside B...
The Suella/Sunak Stand-Off
INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government - November 11, 2023 08:38 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe King’s Speech on Tuesday meant a day of dashing uniforms and galloping horses, but was there anything of substance behind the pomp and ceremony? The Sun’s Noa Hoffman is this week’s podcast guest as the Inside Briefing team weigh up the legislative agenda on offer from Rishi Sunak. The home s...
Boris Johnson's orgy of narcissism
INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government - November 03, 2023 12:42 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAstonishing revelations and appalling language made for a gripping week at the Covid inquiry, with Dominic Cummings dominating headlines once again with his account of Boris Johnson’s chaotic No10. The BBC’s health reporter Jim Reed joins the podcast team to work out what we’ve learnt from the ev...
Inside Briefing Extra: Where next for English devolution?
INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government - November 01, 2023 09:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWhat progress has the government made in devolving power across England? Has it been a success? And what would a Labour government do differently? In this special episode of Inside Briefing, Akash Paun, the Institute for Government’s devolution watcher-in-chief, travels across England to find o...
250th EPISODE: Many unhappy returns? Rishi Sunak one year in
INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government - October 27, 2023 10:39 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsRishi Sunak has clocked up 365 days as Prime Minister – but is the anniversary a cause for celebration or just a moment of relief? Politico’s Dan Bloom joins the podcast team to weigh up Sunak’s first year in the job, assess his achievements and failures and how he has surprised us, and explore ...
Rishi Sunak's double trouble
INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government - October 20, 2023 13:08 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsLabour's double by-election win has sent shockwaves through Westminster. So what does it mean for Keir Starmer? What does Rishi Sunak do now? And what might it tell us about the battleground on which the general election might be fought? The FT's Lucy Fisher joins the pod team to react to the res...
Mystery date: when is the right time to call a general election?
INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government - October 17, 2023 06:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWill it be May? Maybe October? Perhaps November? Surely not January 2025? Yes, everyone is talking about when the next general election is going to be held – and speculating when Rishi Sunak will decide to go to the country. So is it right for the prime minister to have the power to choose the ...
Keir Starmer’s Mersey Mission
INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government - October 13, 2023 09:12 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsParty conference season is nearly over and the IfG podcast crew have made their way back to London after their trips to Manchester and Liverpool. But which politicians will be returning to parliament battling new headaches? Has Rishi Sunak done enough to shake off the Conservatives’ post-Truss er...
The Start of the Keir Show
INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government - October 06, 2023 12:44 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsHow will Keir Starmer respond to Rishi Sunak’s ambitious pitch to be the “change” candidate at the next general election? The New Statesman’s Anoosh Chakelian and Josh Simons, director of Labour Together, are the guests on this week’s Inside Briefing as the podcast crew preview Labour’s annual co...
Rishi Sunak's Conference Call
INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government - September 29, 2023 10:54 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWhen you put a load of ministers and MPs in a conference centre for four days, without enough sleep, and very little natural light, something unexpected – at least for the government – always happens. So what – and who – should we be keeping an eye on as the Conservatives decamp to Manchester for...
Rishi Sunak's Seven Deadly Bins
INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government - September 22, 2023 09:12 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsRishi Sunak has ripped up the UK's net zero plan - but did the prime minister's emissions statement make sense and will it win him votes? Daily Telegraph political editor Ben Riley-Smith, the author of a new book on the last 13 years of Conservative government, is this week's podcast guest. Li...
Plane speaking with the PM
INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government - September 15, 2023 10:27 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe podcast team dissect Rishi Sunak's appearance at the G20 summit in India - and Daily Mirror political editor John Stevens reveals what it's really like to join the prime minister on the plane for a foreign trip. Westminster has been rocked by a spy scandal - but should MPs really be that sur...
Concrete Evidence
INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government - September 09, 2023 10:04 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsKeir Starmer has reshuffled his team of shadow ministers. So who’s up? Who’s down? Is this the march of the Blairites? And what does the reshuffle reveal about Starmer’s plans for the general election campaign – or for government should Labour win? The Guardian’s Aletha Adu joins the IfG podcast ...
Special: Becoming A Minister Part 6 - Parliament
INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government - September 07, 2023 10:17 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThere is no job quite like that of a government minister – and no training manual for how to do it. So what happens on the first day in the job? How can ministers manager the demands on their time? Are particular skills needed to get the best out of civil servants? Is there a trick to working wit...
The Rishi Reshuffle
INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government - September 01, 2023 11:48 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSummer is nearly over. Parliament is set to return. And the Inside Briefing team is back to take stock of the last few months – and look ahead to what a lively couple of months might bring. Ben Wallace is out, Grant Shapps is the new defence secretary, and Claire Coutinho has become the younges...
Special: Becoming A Minister Part 5 - Managing budgets and working with the Treasury
INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government - August 31, 2023 17:22 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThere is no job quite like that of a government minister – and no training manual for how to do it. So what happens on the first day in the job? How can ministers manager the demands on their time? Are particular skills needed to get the best out of civil servants? Is there a trick to working wit...
Special: Becoming A Minister Part 4 – Working with Number 10
INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government - August 25, 2023 03:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThere is no job quite like that of a government minister – and no training manual for how to do it. So what happens on the first day in the job? How can ministers manager the demands on their time? Are particular skills needed to get the best out of civil servants? Is there a trick to working wit...
Special: Becoming A Minister Part 3 – Working with the civil service
INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government - August 18, 2023 03:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThere is no job quite like that of a government minister – and no training manual for how to do it. So what happens on the first day in the job? How can ministers manager the demands on their time? Are particular skills needed to get the best out of civil servants? Is there a trick to working wit...
Special: Becoming A Minister Part 2 – The day-to-day reality
INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government - August 11, 2023 03:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThere is no job quite like that of a government minister – and no training manual for how to do it. So what happens on the first day in the job? How can ministers manager the demands on their time? Are particular skills needed to get the best out of civil servants? Is there a trick to working wit...
Special: Becoming A Minister Part 1 – The first day
INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government - August 03, 2023 08:56 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThere is no job quite like that of a government minister – and no training manual for how to do it. So what happens on the first day in the job? How can ministers manager the demands on their time? Are particular skills needed to get the best out of civil servants? Is there a trick to working wit...
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