A Penny for Their Thoughts?

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

4.6 • 252 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The Conservative leadership contest is gathering speed, but what are the candidates offering their fellow MPs, what does the party membership think, and have the front runners caught the attention of the public? BBC Newsnight’s Lewis Goodall joins the IfG podcast team to weigh up the men and women battling to become the next prime minister. Most of them are offering tax cuts. Smart long-term policy or crude short-term politics? And what exactly could, or should, the caretaker government do if the cost-of-living crisis gets even worse in the coming weeks and months? Presented by Bronwen Maddox. With Giles Wilkes, Jill Rutter 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.
0:14.0	I'm Bronwyn Maddox.
0:16.0	A week in politics really is a very, very long time.
0:20.0	But rattling through the high-speed conservative leadership contest, Sajid Javid, whose resignation from the cabinet helped trigger the downfall of Boris Johnson, is already out.
0:29.6	So to others, and before long, a huge excited feel will be whiffled down to just two.
0:35.6	So we're going to catch up on that battle to become Prime Minister.
0:38.3	A lot of the candidates have been talking about tax, or rather tax cuts,
0:43.3	a bit less about spending and spending cuts.
0:45.3	On the right call, we're going to do the sums.
0:48.3	As energy bills stay painfully high, concealed just a bit by the heat wave,
0:51.3	we'll look at what a caretaker government should and shouldn't do to intervene
0:54.9	and the options available to Boris Johnson's successor.
0:59.1	Joining me in the studio today are two IFG senior fellows who've both worked in number 10, Jill Rutter and Giles Wilkes. Hi, both.
1:06.3	Hello.
1:06.6	Hi, Roman. I'm delighted that we're joined today by BBC News Nights Lewis Goodall, soon to be LBC's Lewis Goodall. How are you?
1:14.4	I'm fine, thank you. All good. Lots of politics for you on, so I'm a happy man.
1:18.8	Let's start with the story that dominates the headlines and is leading all the bulletins, and that's the race to become Prime Minister.
1:25.7	Sajajab had gone before the first round, Jeremy Hunt out, big names are falling.
1:30.7	Lewis, what do you make of it?
1:32.7	You know what? It's a really bitty contest, actually, and it's clearly, easily the most
1:36.9	open one that there's been since 2016. And, of course, these are almost triennial events now.
1:41.7	This will be our fourth Conservative Minister in six years.
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