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Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

4.6 • 252 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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With less than a week to go until a series of elections across the UK, the FT's Jim Pickard joins the podcast team to discuss what's at stake - and what the results could mean. The cost of living crisis will no doubt be featuring on the doorstep, so is there more the government could be doing to help? And as Emmanuel Macron secures a second term as French President, the Institut Montaigne's Georgina Wright dials in from Paris to talk through an eventful - and crucial - election. Presented by Hannah White, with Akash Paun and Olly Bartrum Produced by Candice McKenzie 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.
0:16.4	I'm Hannah White, Deputy Director at the IFG and this week's Deputy presenter.
0:20.3	An embattled leader, distracted by international affairs and struggling to I'm Hannah White, Deputy Director at the IFG and this week's Deputy presenter.
0:26.8	An embattled leader, distracted by international affairs and struggling to deal with the cost of living crisis at home.
0:29.9	But Emmanuel Macron still won the French presidential election.
0:33.3	How did he do it? And what does France's experience mean for the UK?
0:34.4	We'll take a look.
0:39.3	And then we'll turn our attention to another in-battle leader, distracted by international.
0:40.5	Well, you get the idea.
0:44.9	Yes, we're a week away now from a series of important elections across the UK.
0:47.5	So where are the votes taking place and what's at stake?
0:50.1	We'll speak to the RFG's local elections expert.
0:56.0	MPs tell us that the cost of living crisis is featuring heavily on the doorstep. So what's going on?
1:00.6	And does the government have a credible plan to deal with it? All that and more on this week's inside briefing. I've got a raving cast of RFG experts dropping in during the show, but I'm delighted
1:06.4	to be joined throughout by Jim Picard, Chief Political Correspondent at the FT. Hi, Jim. How are you? Good morning. Very well, thanks.
1:13.7	Okay, let's start in France, where last weekend President Macron saw off the challenge of Marine
1:18.9	Le Pen to secure a historic second term. And earlier I was joined all the way from Paris by
1:24.5	Georgina Wright, senior fellow and director of Antistuteu Montaigne's
1:28.2	Europe programme and an associate here at the RFG. Hi Georgie. Busy, busy times? Quite busy. Hi, Hannah.
1:35.6	It's so nice to speak to you. So, in the end, Emmanuel Macron won quite comfortably. Is that
1:43.1	what people were expecting? I was hearing lots of nervous
1:45.7	comparisons with Trump's election and the Lee victory in the Brexit referendum. People were
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