Boris Johnson: The Party’s Over

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

4.6 • 252 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The Privileges Committee has delivered its verdict on Boris Johnson, with the former PM lashing out after the committee found he had lied to Parliament. Sam Freedman joins the podcast team to ask what the damning conclusions – and a recommended 90-day suspension from Parliament which Johnson has avoided by quitting as an MP – means for the former prime minister and the Conservative Party. Plus, from an inquiry that is over to one that has just got going. The Covid Inquiry has held its first public hearings, and some big-name witnesses are booked in for next week. And: Is the NHS in a death spiral? A new IfG report examines why more money and extra staff has failed to turn around declining performance levels in hospitals. Hannah White presents, with Emma Norris and Cath Haddon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this episode of Inside Briefing, the podcast from the Institute for Government.
0:14.3	I'm Hannah White. So, the Privileges Committee report has landed. And well, wow, a committee found that Boris Johnson
0:22.7	deliberately misled the House of Commons and committed a series of further serious contempts,
0:28.5	concluding that had he not already quit as an MP, he should have been suspended from Parliament
0:32.9	for 90 days. So what happens next with this report? What does it say about Parliament and what next
0:39.3	poor former Prime Minister? As one inquiry finally revealed its findings, another finally got underway.
0:46.0	The COVID-19 inquiry is up and running, so where does it go from here?
0:50.2	COVID has been blamed for the huge dip in hospital performance, but take a closer look at the stats and it's clear the problems were there long before the pandemic started.
0:58.7	More staff and more money aren't turning the crisis around. So what's the problem?
1:03.1	A new IFG report examines what's going on and poses the questions that politicians need to answer.
1:08.1	So we've got a lot to get through today. And I have to say the quality
1:11.1	of this podcast will be in no way affected by the fact the IFG had its summer party last night,
1:15.7	or that the Privileges Committee roused us from our beds quite and early to read its report.
1:19.9	I'm joined by a formidable duo, bright-eyed and bursting with energy, Emma Norris and Kath Haddon.
1:25.9	Hi, both. Hi, her. Hi, Hannah.
1:28.6	Did that situation? Should we do that again? Are we sounding sufficiently energetic there?
1:32.3	It's fine. I think people get the picture. And I'm delighted, too, to be joined by Sam Friedman,
1:37.0	IFC's senior fellow former government advisor and co-author of our new NHS report. Hi, Sam.
1:42.6	Hello. Sam sounds slightly more with it. I left the party a bit earlier,
1:47.7	I suspect. Let's start with the Privileges Committee report, which dropped this morning,
1:52.8	more than 30,000 words long, but with a very clear message. Kath, can you give us, to start with a
1:57.9	historical take? Have we ever seen anything like this before? No.
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