Changing of the guard

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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After six years, three prime ministers and 178 episodes of Inside Briefing, outgoing Institute for Government Director Bronwen Maddox chairs her final episode looking at the big themes that have dominated U.K. government during her time at IFG. Where have Brexit and covid left the UK's economy and where does Johnson's departure leave the prospect of levelling up the country? Why does government fail and what do we need to do about it? And how far should we go in reforming our constitution after the seismic events of the last six years? Hosted by Bronwen Maddox. Featuring Hannah White, Giles Wilkes, Jill Rutter, Alex Thomas, Matthew Gill, Maddy Thimont-Jack and Cath Haddon. Produced by Candice McKenzie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. Welcome to Inside Briefing, the podcast from the Institute for Government. I'm Bronwyn Maddox.
0:15.6	I have to say I approach this particular podcast, not quite like Boris Johnson at the dispatch box,
0:19.6	but there's a real sense of
0:21.7	sadness about this kind of closing moment because this is my last week at the IFG. I start as
0:26.6	director, chief executive of Chatham House after the August Bank holiday. And so I'm going to be
0:32.1	saying goodbye to a lot of colleagues, a lot of you, but it leaves us with a question of what we
0:36.8	talk about today. And I am not going to take us through a survey of colleagues, a lot of you. But it leaves us with a question of what we talk about today.
0:38.1	And I am not going to take us through a survey of the extraordinary six years that we and the
0:42.7	country and the world have had since I started here. Maybe I should say I took the job just
0:47.7	two days before the 2016 referendum. But I am going to ask my colleagues to dig into three
0:54.1	big questions about the state
0:55.9	of government that really hang over our work today. We're going to start with the economy. It
1:01.0	doesn't get smaller than that. And that's going to dominate this year, not just the conservative
1:05.6	leadership race, which we're hearing now. We're then going to go on to the civil service,
1:11.5	and with half of Britain stuck at Dover or in airports or at home, because they don't have their passports, I've asked my
1:16.1	colleagues to give their best answer as to why stuff doesn't work. And then we're going on to
1:22.7	perhaps the biggest question, the Constitution and what Boris Johnson has shown us about how it works and how it
1:28.3	fails. In all of this, my colleagues are going to be running in and out of our special
1:32.2	podcast room in different batches. So, round one, the economy, and I've got with me two senior
1:37.7	fellows, Charles Wilkes, formerly of number 10, Jill Rutter, formerly of the Treasury and lots of other
1:41.9	places. Hi both. Hello. Hi there.
1:50.3	Great to have you here. Giles, look, big question. Brexit, coronavirus, leveling up,
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