Boris Johnson: Exit Means Exit?

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

4.6 • 252 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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After an extraordinary day in Westminster, and a record-breaking number of resignations, the Prime Minister finally quit Downing Street. But Boris Johnson will stay on in No.10 until his successor his chosen. The IfG podcast team assemble to ask what this period of caretaker government will look like, how the next Prime Minister will be chosen, and what Boris Johnson’s record in office looks like. And at the very moment Johnson announced his resignation, his predecessor Theresa May was giving a speech at the IfG on how to restore trust in politics. And as the resignations began to pile up on Wednesday, the IfG was hosting a one day conference on how to reform government. Big themes, big questions, and, it turned out, taking place at a very big moment in politics. Presented by Bronwen Maddox. With Alex Thomas, Cath Haddon and Tim Durrant. 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 on a very lively day at the IFG.
0:19.3	It's 247 on Thursday afternoon. Things are happening really quickly.
0:23.8	News seems to be breaking all the time, but let's take a breath, sort of, and catch up on 48 hours
0:29.1	in British politics, which really can be called unprecedented. The word I normally avoid,
0:34.7	but not in this case. Boris Johnson has quit, reluctantly, finally,
0:38.6	as Prime Minister after a cascade of resignations, triggered by those of Rishi Sunakas,
0:43.4	Chancellor and Sajid Javid as Health Secretary. So is a tumultuous period in British politics
0:48.7	drawing to a close? Well, not quite. He's staying on until a new leader is chosen, but no date
0:53.4	has been set, or can be,
0:54.9	quite yet. So what does this mean for the government? How will that new leader be chosen? And in
1:00.3	these first hours of the not nearly post-Johnson era, what can we say about Johnson's time in office
1:07.9	and his legacy? I've got three great colleagues with me, tearing themselves
1:12.1	away from TV studios and building graphs and writing about it all. And that's Alex Thomas,
1:17.1	Kath Haddon and Tim Durant. Hi, everyone. Hi, Brumman. Great to be here. Great to have you.
1:22.1	Kath, start us off. Who won? Rules or the individual? I mean, somebody, I've just saw David Allen Green tweeting, this is the flexibility
1:30.4	of the constitution happening, working.
1:34.0	Well, which bit, that he stayed so long or that he went?
1:36.2	No, that they forced him out through political pressure and that for all the talk about,
1:40.7	what if he resists the rules, etc. That political gravity in the end,
1:44.7	one out. Because we do have a parliamentary system. Yeah. And if the party doesn't want its leader,
1:50.5	it does have ways of getting it out. Conservative Labor, maybe different rules. But it's also,
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