A Good Year For The Roosevelts

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 3 July 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Is Build Build Build just Talk Talk Talk? With its £5bn shopping list of infrastructure spending, is Boris Johnson’s so-called New Deal really as big and Rooseveltian as he’d like the world to believe? Does the sudden departure of Sir Mark Sedwill indicate that the Government is just building another brand of groupthink? And as Leicester locks down again, does a ‘whack-a-mole’ COVID strategy make sense if you can’t see the mole? Special guest Robert Shrimsley, chief political commentator and editor at large at the Financial Times, joins us to examine the economics beneath the announcements. “Someone described Johnson as ‘Brexity Hezza’… This is a Prime Minister who will intervene before breakfast, lunch and dinner.” – Robert Shrimsley “This is not a free trade government… and there’s a tension between that and its post-Brexit free trade rhetoric.” – Robert Shrimsley “We’re going to spend the next 15 years negotiating and renegotiating its trade agreements with the EU.” – Robert Shrimsley Presented by Bronwen Maddox with Cath Haddon, Gemma Tetlow and Raphael Hogarth. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Inside Briefing, the podcast from the Institute for Government.
0:14.9	I'm Bronwyn Maddox. The Prime Minister is determined to move on from coronavirus. He wants to
0:19.6	build, build, build.
0:21.2	In a speech this week, he set out his vision of a Rooseveltian New Deal.
0:24.7	And you wait months for a reference to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and two come along at once.
0:28.7	Michael Gove, Minister for the Cabinet Office, referred to the US President in setting
0:32.4	out his grand plans for reforming the way government works.
0:35.9	He also cited Antonio Gramsci, and noted Marxist thinker,
0:39.3	all this from a conservative government. It did not pass without comment that his speech
0:43.8	came barely 24 hours before the announcement that Sir Mark said law was stepping down as
0:47.8	cabinet secretary. We'll look at whether the changes the government is actually making in Whitehall
0:51.9	match what go says he intends.
0:59.6	And coronavirus hasn't gone away either. In fact, in Leicester, it looks like it's on the way back.
1:05.4	But how does Boris Johnson's whack-a-mole local lockdown strategy actually work? That's coming up too.
1:12.6	Joining me in our virtual studio today, a Kath Haddon, our guru on all things constitutional.
1:14.3	Hi, Kath, big week in Whitehall.
1:16.2	Yes, a very big week.
1:18.6	You don't normally lose a cabinet secretary, so yeah.
1:23.2	Welcome back to our chief economist, Gemma Tetlow, who's been looking at the Prime Minister's building plans.
1:24.0	Hello.
1:27.8	A big welcome to Robert Shimsley, Chief Political Commentator at the FTT.
1:29.0	It's great to have you here.
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