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Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

4.6 • 252 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Three big international summits have kept Boris Johnson thousands of miles away from by-election defeats, a Cabinet resignation and growing disquiet at home, but what did the prime minister actually achieve on his foreign adventures? The Telegraph’s Camilla Turner, who travelled with the PM to Rwanda, joins the podcast team to reflect on Johnson’s travels. While the prime minister was away the cabinet secretary endured a gruelling questioning by a parliamentary select committee, but the IfG team were unimpressed with Simon Case’s performance. And from transactional to transformational, how do ministers approach the art of leadership in different ways? That’s the subject of new IfG report. We take a closer look on the podcast. Bronwen Maddox presents. With Alex Thomas and Jill Rutter 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.
0:14.1	I'm Bronwyn Maddox.
0:16.1	Busy week abroad for the Prime Minister, two continents, three global summits, a lot of air miles. So what does this
0:21.7	mean for the UK's foreign and defence policy? And with the Prime Minister away, we saw a return to the
0:26.9	spotlight for Simon Case, the Cabinet Secretary, for an appearance before a parliamentary committee
0:31.2	that the government had previously delayed. We'll catch up on what his performance told us about
0:36.1	the Partygate row and his own standing.
0:39.0	And how do different ministers approach the art of leadership and what does this mean for the civil servants who work with them?
0:44.8	A new IFG report has all the answers.
0:47.7	To discuss this, I'm joined by two top IFG colleagues, both of whom have clocked up years of service inside government as well.
0:54.2	That's Alex Thomas and Jill Rutter. Hi, both of you. Hi, Bronwyn.
0:57.3	Hello, Bronwyn.
0:58.7	And I've delighted to be joined as well by Camilla Turner, the chief political correspondent at the Telegraph.
1:03.3	Hi, Camilla. Hi, and thanks for having me.
1:05.4	Great to have you here. Well, let's dive straight in with the Prime Minister's overseas adventures, a Commonwealth
1:11.2	meeting, a G7 get-together and a NATO summit as well.
1:15.0	Camilla, you were with the lobby for the Rwanda part of this trip.
1:18.2	What was it like?
1:19.7	So, yes, I was with the Prime Minister from we took off on Wednesday night and had an overnight
1:25.6	flight to Rwanda.
1:27.4	And there was a big lobby group of us there.
1:31.3	And we all set off on the Prime Minister's plane.
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