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 Nov 15, 2020

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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.

Episode Date
Power to the people
Dec 20, 2024
Appetite for Disruption
Dec 12, 2024
The Plans they are A-Changing
Dec 06, 2024
The new cabinet secretary: Can Sir Chris Wormald rewire the British state?
Dec 03, 2024
Cabi-not yet Secretary
Nov 29, 2024
Starmer’s Farmer Drama
Nov 21, 2024
Donald Trump's Team Calls
Nov 15, 2024
In Conversation with Michael Gove
Nov 13, 2024
Is the world ready for Donald Trump?
Nov 08, 2024
Rachel Reeves' Halloween budget: trick or treat?
Nov 01, 2024
What did Rachel Reeves’ budget reveal about the government’s priorities?
Oct 30, 2024
Donald Trump and the politics of interfere
Oct 25, 2024
Saturday Night's Alright for Investing
Oct 18, 2024
Gray goes out of fashion
Oct 11, 2024
After Sue Gray: How can Keir Starmer reset No.10?
Oct 09, 2024
Why was the Conservative Party Conference so upbeat?
Oct 04, 2024
Live from the Labour Party Conference!
Sep 24, 2024
KEIR AND PRESENT DANGER
Sep 20, 2024
Extra: What can be done to improve government procurement?
Sep 19, 2024
Winter Fuel of Discontent
Sep 13, 2024
Decades of failure by central government
Sep 06, 2024
Starmer looks back in anger
Aug 30, 2024
Appointments of contention
Aug 22, 2024
Does Sam Freedman have a plan to fix the failed state?
Aug 15, 2024
The politics of the Olympic Games
Aug 08, 2024
SpAdcast: What is it really like to be a special adviser? – Ep.4: Moving On
Aug 05, 2024
The Chancellor’s statement of intent
Aug 02, 2024
SpAdcast: What is it really like to be a special adviser? – Ep3: Beyond the department
Jul 29, 2024
The Trump vs Harris Showdown
Jul 26, 2024
SpAdcast: What is it really like to be a special adviser? – Ep2: Relationships
Jul 22, 2024
Britain with the brakes off, America at the abyss
Jul 19, 2024
SpAdcast: What is it really like to be a special adviser? – Ep1: Into government
Jul 16, 2024
Keir and Prison Danger
Jul 12, 2024
LIVE: The day after the 2024 general election
Jul 05, 2024
Sunak’s election gamble: will Starmer hit the jackpot?
Jun 28, 2024
Election 2024: Poll positions
Jun 21, 2024
Election 2024: This Charming Manifesto?
Jun 14, 2024
Question Time Special: What does the election mean for civil servants?
Jun 07, 2024
Sunak vs. Starmer: Tax Attacks
Jun 07, 2024
Rishi Sunak’s Titanic challenge
May 31, 2024
Extra: General Election question time special
May 24, 2024
Rishi Sunak’s General Election gamble
May 24, 2024
Starmer steps on Sunak’s toes
May 17, 2024
Dover and done with
May 10, 2024
Local Elections 2024: Swings and roundabouts
May 03, 2024
The rules of Rishi’s flight club
Apr 26, 2024
Trust in government up in smoke?
Apr 19, 2024
Foreign Office Politics
Apr 12, 2024
Rishi Sunak and the Attack of the Cybermen
Mar 29, 2024
The Prime Minister’s plot twists
Mar 22, 2024
Preparing for Power: Ep 6 – Into Government
Mar 15, 2024
What’s wrong with the centre of government – and how can we fix it?
Mar 14, 2024
The general election budget?
Mar 07, 2024
Preparing for Power: Ep 5 – Making Manifestos
Mar 05, 2024
What do we really know about Keir Starmer?
Mar 01, 2024
Preparing for Power: Ep 4 – The governing party
Feb 27, 2024
The Hoyle Crisis
Feb 23, 2024
Preparing for Power: Ep 3 – The Opposition
Feb 20, 2024
Rishi Sunak’s double by-election trouble
Feb 17, 2024
Preparing for Power – Ep.2: The Civil Service
Feb 13, 2024
Sunak gambles as Starmer u-turns
Feb 09, 2024
Preparing for Power – Ep.1: Access Talks
Feb 06, 2024
The Gathering Stormont
Feb 02, 2024
Has Sunak lost the plot?
Jan 26, 2024
Rishi vs. The Rebels
Jan 19, 2024
The Post Office scandal: Trouble on the horizon
Jan 12, 2024
2024 Preview Special: Let election battles commence
Jan 04, 2024
Christmas Special: The IfG Fantasy Cabinet
Dec 29, 2023
The IfG Review of 2023: Posturing and panicking, poison and paranoia
Dec 21, 2023
Rishi Sunak’s unhappy Five Families
Dec 16, 2023
Was this Rishi Sunak's worst week yet?
Dec 08, 2023
Sunak’s Captain Marble act falls flat
Dec 01, 2023
Autumn Statement of Intent?
Nov 24, 2023
Sunak's flights of fantasy?
Nov 17, 2023
LIGHTS! CAMERON! RESHUFFLE ACTION!
Nov 13, 2023
The Suella/Sunak Stand-Off
Nov 11, 2023
Boris Johnson's orgy of narcissism
Nov 03, 2023
Inside Briefing Extra: Where next for English devolution?
Nov 01, 2023
250th EPISODE: Many unhappy returns? Rishi Sunak one year in
Oct 27, 2023
Rishi Sunak's double trouble
Oct 20, 2023
Mystery date: when is the right time to call a general election?
Oct 17, 2023
Keir Starmer’s Mersey Mission
Oct 13, 2023
The Start of the Keir Show
Oct 06, 2023
Rishi Sunak's Conference Call
Sep 29, 2023
Rishi Sunak's Seven Deadly Bins
Sep 22, 2023
Plane speaking with the PM
Sep 15, 2023
Concrete Evidence
Sep 09, 2023
Special: Becoming A Minister Part 6 - Parliament
Sep 07, 2023
The Rishi Reshuffle
Sep 01, 2023
Special: Becoming A Minister Part 5 - Managing budgets and working with the Treasury
Aug 31, 2023
Special: Becoming A Minister Part 4 – Working with Number 10
Aug 25, 2023
Special: Becoming A Minister Part 3 – Working with the civil service
Aug 18, 2023
Special: Becoming A Minister Part 2 – The day-to-day reality
Aug 11, 2023
Special: Becoming A Minister Part 1 – The first day
Aug 03, 2023
The Recess Digest
Jul 27, 2023
Special: Sunak’s ethics plan
Jul 26, 2023
Uxbridge Over Troubled Water?
Jul 21, 2023
Good chaps and bad apples
Jul 14, 2023
Searching For Evidence
Jul 07, 2023
Rishi Sunak and the drip-drip of bad news
Jun 30, 2023
Rishi Sunak counts the costs
Jun 23, 2023
Boris Johnson: The Party’s Over
Jun 16, 2023
Ex-Prime Ministers' Question Time
Jun 09, 2023
WhatsApp with the Covid Inquiry?
Jun 02, 2023
Drivetime with Suella Braverman
May 26, 2023
Why Doesn't Westminster Work?
May 19, 2023
Sunak's Scorecard and Minority Reports
May 12, 2023
Sunak's Little Local Difficulties and Starmer's Big Local Victories
May 11, 2023
Scapegoats or snowflakes?
Apr 28, 2023
Extra: The Treasury and the Covid crisis
Apr 26, 2023
Non-Dom Status
Apr 21, 2023
Striking images: What caused the NHS crisis and can it be fixed?
Apr 14, 2023
Dover Queues and Brexit Truths?
Apr 07, 2023
EXTRA - The Belfast/Good Friday Agreement: 25 years on
Apr 07, 2023
Someone Like Yousaf
Apr 01, 2023
EXTRA - The Emily Maitlis interview
Mar 31, 2023
EXTRA - Iraq War 20th Anniversary: The Robin Butler Interview
Mar 24, 2023
Boris Johnson's Partygate Hangover Returns
Mar 24, 2023
The Morning After The Budget Before
Mar 16, 2023
Will the government’s “stop the boats” plan work?
Mar 13, 2023
Stop boats, get votes?
Mar 10, 2023
International Women’s Day Special
Mar 08, 2023
Northern Ireland special: The Windsor change
Mar 03, 2023
Gray Goes Gracefully?
Mar 03, 2023
A year of war in Ukraine
Feb 24, 2023
A Holyrood Ending
Feb 17, 2023
Impermanent Secretaries: The Cabinet Reshuffle
Feb 10, 2023
100 days of Sunak
Feb 03, 2023
Sunak’s slipping standards?
Jan 27, 2023
Blasts from the past: Live at the IfG Conference 2023 with guest DAN SNOW
Jan 20, 2023
Payday Groans
Jan 13, 2023
Buckle up for 2023
Jan 06, 2023
Constitutions under pressure: Lessons for the UK
Dec 28, 2022
The IfG Review of 2022 – The year of living dangerously 
Dec 22, 2022
The Winter Of Discontent 2.0
Dec 16, 2022
Peer Pressure
Dec 09, 2022
Selection headaches & tactical dilemmas
Dec 02, 2022
Rishi Sunak’s Growing Pains
Nov 25, 2022
Autumn Statement of intent
Nov 19, 2022
Gavin Williamson shuts up and goes away
Nov 11, 2022
Rumble in the Westminster Jungle
Nov 04, 2022
Ready for Rishi?
Oct 28, 2022
Broken Truss
Oct 21, 2022
Is the lady for u-turning?
Oct 14, 2022
"The nightmarish state of British politics"
Oct 07, 2022
Gilt trips & bank statements
Sep 30, 2022
Europe's Energy Crisis
Sep 28, 2022
Gloves off for Truss v Starmer
Sep 23, 2022
The Queen, the King and the Constitution
Sep 15, 2022
In Liz we Truss?
Sep 07, 2022
Truss triumph or Sunak surprise?
Sep 03, 2022
WHAT IS THE POINT OF PARTY CONFERENCES?
Aug 25, 2022
THE SECRET MAP OF WHITEHALL
Aug 18, 2022
THE LIFECYCLE OF A MINISTER
Aug 11, 2022
NUMBER 10 AFTER JOHNSON
Aug 04, 2022
Changing of the guard
Jul 29, 2022
The Sunak v Truss showdown
Jul 23, 2022
A Penny for Their Thoughts?
Jul 15, 2022
Boris Johnson: Exit Means Exit?
Jul 07, 2022
Around the World in 8 days
Jun 30, 2022
Double Trouble
Jun 25, 2022
The Only Way is Ethics
Jun 16, 2022
1922 and all that: Johnson’s crisis of confidence
Jun 10, 2022
VONC Special: Boris On The Brink?
Jun 07, 2022
Beyond the Beehive: lessons on government reform from New Zealand
May 27, 2022
Gray Matters
May 27, 2022
Belfast and the furious
May 20, 2022
Boris and the Giant Queen’s Speech
May 13, 2022
Election selection rejection
May 07, 2022
A little local difficulty?
Apr 29, 2022
Partygate in the House
Apr 22, 2022
Paying the penalty?
Apr 15, 2022
Information, Misinformation, Disinformation
Apr 08, 2022
Another fine mess for No10?
Apr 01, 2022
Is Rishi fuelling discontent?
Mar 25, 2022
Spring Statement Special Edition
Mar 21, 2022
Russia's Money Talks
Mar 18, 2022
Pouring Oil on Troubled Waters
Mar 17, 2022
THE UKRAINE CRISIS HITS HOME
Mar 11, 2022
How can Putin’s Ukraine war end?
Mar 04, 2022
Putin’s War - Can Sanctions Work?
Feb 25, 2022
Playing Chicken With Kyiv
Feb 17, 2022
Director’s Annual Lecture 2022
Feb 12, 2022
Send In The Not Complete Clowns
Feb 11, 2022
Sir John Major: In Democracy We Trust?
Feb 11, 2022
It’s a Shame About Gray
Feb 03, 2022
Ukraine on the Brink
Jan 28, 2022
Dog Fights and Defections
Jan 20, 2022
24 Hour Work Event People
Jan 13, 2022
It takes Inflation of Billions to Hold us back
Jan 06, 2022
2021: Groundhog Year
Dec 29, 2021
Peppa Pig Strikes Back: What fiction and fantasy can teach us about government, Part 2
Dec 23, 2021
One Hell of a Kicking for Boris Johnson
Dec 17, 2021
Ain’t no Party like a Number 10 Party
Dec 09, 2021
Why Does It Always Rayn On Keir?
Dec 02, 2021
“Is everything OK, Prime Minister?”
Nov 26, 2021
Sleaze into Another Week
Nov 18, 2021
“Not Remotely A Corrupt Country”
Nov 11, 2021
A Massive Owen Goal
Nov 05, 2021
Budget post-mortem: A new age of optimism?
Oct 29, 2021
Budget Review: Have Your Twix and Eat It
Oct 28, 2021
Budget Preview: Rishi Business
Oct 25, 2021
The David Amess murder: Will politics change?
Oct 22, 2021
Brexit: An Early Frost
Oct 14, 2021
The Boris in the Bubble
Oct 08, 2021
Right Keir, Right Now?
Sep 30, 2021
Levelling Up Means Levelling Up
Sep 24, 2021
Reshuffle Kerfuffle
Sep 16, 2021
The Taxman Cometh
Sep 10, 2021
Afghanistan: From Great Game to Blame Game
Sep 03, 2021
Special: Summer governing, happened so fast
Aug 26, 2021
Afghanistan: Rage of the Commons
Aug 19, 2021
The Afterlife Of Prime Ministers
Aug 12, 2021
Magic Johnsonism?
Aug 05, 2021
Boris’s End Of Term Report
Jul 30, 2021
Where The Wild Pings Are
Jul 22, 2021
Levelling Up or Spreading the Jam?
Jul 16, 2021
COVID: They think it’s all over
Jul 08, 2021
Hancock: Tryst Issues
Jul 02, 2021
A Deal Down Under
Jun 17, 2021
G7: There's Summit About Boris
Jun 11, 2021
EXTRA: Future Covid-19 scenarios: how can the world meet long-term threats?
Jun 10, 2021
The PM: Why ‘unfitness for office’ doesn't matter
Jun 03, 2021
Domolition Derby
May 27, 2021
Travel: Are You An Amber Gambler?
May 21, 2021
The Third Way… by Boris Johnson?
May 14, 2021
Elections ’21: Sheer Hartlepool Attack
May 07, 2021
Soft Furnishings, Hard Questions
Apr 30, 2021
Accessing your Flexible Friends
Apr 23, 2021
The Lobbying Scandal: ACOBA on the ropes
Apr 16, 2021
Who Judges The Judges?
Apr 16, 2021
Disintegration Nation
Apr 08, 2021
Scandal In The Wind
Apr 01, 2021
COVID: The Year of Indecision
Mar 25, 2021
Warheads Revisited – Inside the Integrated Defence Review
Mar 19, 2021
The Only Way Is Sussex
Mar 12, 2021
Budget 2021: Party like it’s 1969?
Mar 05, 2021
Budget: The Four Hundred Billion Pound Man
Mar 05, 2021
Budget 2021: To recovery and beyond?
Mar 02, 2021
EXTRA: Tony Blair on Coronavirus one year on
Feb 26, 2021
Blind Dates
Feb 25, 2021
Lifting lockdown 2021
Feb 19, 2021
Sundown for Lockdown?
Feb 19, 2021
What next for the NHS?
Feb 15, 2021
Welcome To The Hotel Quarantina
Feb 12, 2021
Border Farce
Feb 05, 2021
COVID: Why won’t the Government learn?
Jan 29, 2021
Director’s Annual Lecture 2021
Jan 28, 2021
No.10’s Command and Control Problem – plus Biden and Britain
Jan 22, 2021
Backlogs and Burnout: Will the NHS buckle?
Jan 15, 2021
America’s Day of Chaos
Jan 08, 2021
IFG LIVE SPECIAL The Brexit deal: An IfG briefing
Dec 28, 2020
Outsourcing the Death Star: What fiction and fantasy can teach us about government
Dec 24, 2020
The Year The World Stood Still: 2020 In Review
Dec 21, 2020
So Here It Is, Mini Christmas
Dec 18, 2020
BONUS: What does a Biden presidency mean for the UK?
Dec 12, 2020
Groundhog Deal
Dec 11, 2020
Roll Out To Help Out
Dec 04, 2020
INSIDE BRIEFING EXTRA: When Brexit and Covid collide
Dec 03, 2020
Do They Know It’s Rishmas Time?
Nov 27, 2020
No Such Thing As A Free Relaunch
Nov 20, 2020
A Hard Cain’s Gonna Fall
Nov 12, 2020
BIDEN HIS TIME: Inside Briefing Extra
Nov 09, 2020
Advice to government in the coronavirus crisis
Nov 06, 2020
Fate Of The Union
Nov 05, 2020
Is Britain’s Circuit Breaking?
Oct 30, 2020
All Disquiet On The Northern Front
Oct 23, 2020
Driven To Tiers
Oct 16, 2020
EXTRA: Brexit – Deal or No Deal?
Oct 14, 2020
And The Wind Cries ‘Boris’
Oct 08, 2020
We All Live In A Trade Talks Submarine
Oct 02, 2020
Freeze A Jolly Good Furlough
Sep 25, 2020
Test Botch Special
Sep 18, 2020
Specific and Limited Chaos
Sep 11, 2020
Simon’s on the Case
Sep 04, 2020
Return to Brexit Island
Aug 28, 2020
Slave To The ’Rithm – Exams crisis fallout
Aug 21, 2020
Marksism Today: The A Levels Fiasco
Aug 13, 2020
Northern Uproar and Overloading the Lords
Aug 06, 2020
The Pain In Spain
Jul 31, 2020
Civil Service: Is a Hard Rain really gonna fall?
Jul 24, 2020
Huawei, Lewis And The News
Jul 16, 2020
Rishi’s Groupon Gamble
Jul 10, 2020
SIR BERNARD JENKIN on the Civil Service’s turbulent week
Jul 06, 2020
A Good Year For The Roosevelts
Jul 03, 2020
Resign o’the Times: Mark Sedwill departs
Jun 29, 2020
Let’s Go Outside?
Jun 26, 2020
U-Turn When You Don’t Want To
Jun 19, 2020
COVID: You do the Aftermath
Jun 12, 2020
BONUS: Mark Landler of the NYT extended interview
Jun 04, 2020
Do the Demoggcracy Conga
Jun 04, 2020
Should Have Gone To SPAD-Savers
May 29, 2020
BONUS: The roots of America's COVID chaos with Dan Balz of the Washington Post
May 22, 2020
Back To Life, Back To Reality?
May 22, 2020
On Her Majesty’s Beleagured Service
May 15, 2020
For Those About To Unlock
May 08, 2020
“R” Wars against the Phantom Menace
May 01, 2020
Remote control: JACOB REES-MOGG on the Commons under COVID
Apr 30, 2020
Coming to the COVID Crunch
Apr 24, 2020
The Impossible Choice
Apr 17, 2020
Second in Command?
Apr 10, 2020
Designated survivors: Who’s in charge?
Apr 03, 2020
Sunset Clause is coming to town: Inside the Corona Bill
Mar 26, 2020
Coronanomics – “An enormous moral decision”
Mar 19, 2020
How to handle a national emergency – a special podcast
Mar 16, 2020
IfG INTERVIEWS: Julia Gillard, former Australian PM, on women in politics
Mar 15, 2020
Let’s get fiscal: Can Sunak bury Corona in cash?
Mar 13, 2020
IfG INTERVIEWS: David Gauke, former Treasury Secretary and one-man “Gaukward Squad”
Mar 10, 2020
A matter of life and debt
Mar 05, 2020
EXTRA: Rutnam vs Patel lays Civil Service/Govt turmoil bare
Mar 02, 2020
Breaking Spad: is something rotten in the state of Johnson?
Feb 28, 2020
“The Department of No”: Inside the Number Ten-Treasury rivalry
Feb 20, 2020
Reading the runes of Reshuffle Day with Gavin Barwell
Feb 13, 2020
BONUS: Gina Miller – “Parliamentary sovereignty is much more important than Brexit”
Feb 07, 2020
Getting Away With It? How to scrutinise an all-powerful Government
Feb 07, 2020
BONUS: Gisela Stuart – “I didn’t realise how deep the grievance of Remain voters was.”
Jan 31, 2020
Home and Huawei: Will Boris pass his first post-Brexit test?
Jan 31, 2020
What works in Whitehall – and what doesn’t?
Jan 24, 2020
The Leverage Report
Jan 17, 2020
BONUS: Jonathan Powell – “What I discovered in No.10 is how LITTLE power you have”
Jan 10, 2020
Revolution Number Ten
Jan 10, 2020
Get with the programme? Johnson’s new era of government
Dec 20, 2019
Holyrood vs. Westminster: A Scottish Independence Special Edition
Dec 18, 2019
Johnson unbound? Election results special
Dec 13, 2019
Election: The Final Countdown
Dec 06, 2019
Inside the Manifestos
Nov 29, 2019
A Guide to the Constitutional Galaxy
Nov 22, 2019
Getting Stuff Done: Why it’s always harder than you think
Nov 15, 2019
A firehose of public spending?
Nov 08, 2019
Parliament’s wake-up call for Government, the future of tax and David Lidington MP
Nov 01, 2019
Inside the Election stalemate – plus leading Brexiter Graham Brady MP
Oct 25, 2019
Inside the Brexit endgame – plus Hilary Benn MP
Oct 18, 2019