Autumn Statement of intent

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 19 November 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Jeremy Hunt has unveiled the government's economic plans, with the chancellor handing out giveaways now but setting out tax rises - and spending cuts - to come. So now what? The IfG podcast crunch the chancellor's numbers. The Dominic Raab claims are causing problems for the justice secretary, but do multiplying leaks about ministerial behaviour point to a wider breakdown of trust inside government? And a new joint paper for the Institute for Government and Cambridge University’s Bennett Institute explores 25 years of erratic government attempts to update and reform the British constitution. The paper's author, former DEXEU permanent secretary Peter Rycroft, drops into the studio. Presented by Hannah White, with Gemma Tetlow and Giles Wilkes 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 Hannah White. It's just 56 days since Kwasi Kwarteng set out his September mini-budget,
0:20.1	how things change. We now know the
0:23.0	contents of Jeremy Hunt's autumn statement. The Chancellor claims it is a plan that will tackle
0:28.0	the cost of living crisis and rebuild our economy. It certainly involves a very different approach
0:33.2	to tax to the quasi-quarteng's mini budget. We'll crunch the numbers and weigh up the government's
0:39.0	announcements. On last week's podcast, we discussed bullying claims being made about Gavin Williamson.
0:45.6	This week, we're going to do the same for Dominic Raab. But what do the multiplying leaks about
0:50.2	ministerial conduct say about relations between civil servants and ministers,
0:57.2	we'll explore a potentially serious problem for government.
1:02.0	And then we're going to look at some questions that have for some time now been bubbling away beneath the surface, sometimes bursting out into the open, and that's the Constitution,
1:07.1	or rather how governments go about changing the Constitution.
1:11.0	Spoiler alert, governments often get it wrong.
1:13.6	A new IFG guest paper digs deeper into this issue and we're going to talk to the author.
1:18.8	So to discuss all this, I'm joined in the studio today by two IFG colleagues who followed every word uttered by the Chancellor,
1:25.7	and that's Chief Economist Jematello and senior fellow
1:28.3	Giles Wilkes. Hi both. Hi, Hannah. Good morning, Hannah. And I'm delighted that we're
1:33.1	joined today by Philip Reikroft, the former permanent secretary of the Department for Exiting the European
1:37.8	Union, and the author of our new guest paper on the Constitution. Hi, Philip. Good morning, Hannah.
1:43.6	Have you been pleased to be outside government over the past few months?
1:47.6	That's what you might call a leading question.
1:51.5	Yes, is the honest answer to that. It's been pretty toried, I think, within the House.
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