Double Trouble

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

4.6 • 252 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

After two bruising by-election defeats and a Cabinet resignation, is Boris Johnson fighting to hold on to his job? Pollster James Johnson joins the podcast team to crunch the numbers and work out how the tectonic plates of British politics might shift in the weeks and months ahead. And should more powers be given to England’s mayors? That’s what a new IfG report argues, and its author – fresh from a visit to Manchester to interview Andy Burnham – drops in to explain why. Bronwen Maddox presents. With Hannah White, Giles Wilkes, Akash Paun. 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. I'm Bronwyn Maddox.
0:15.3	The recording on a Friday, a day later than usual, because the votes have now been counted on a couple of big by-elections.
0:22.1	And the Conservatives, Labour and the Lib Dems are all waking up with headaches, but for
0:26.0	different reasons. A double defeat for Boris Johnson was said to be baked in that this is another
0:31.2	bad morning of headlines for the Prime Minister this week in Rwanda at the Commonwealth Summit.
0:36.8	For Labour who won in Wakefield and the Lib Dems,
0:39.0	who overturned a massive conservative majority in Tiviton and Honiton,
0:42.6	celebrations will have gone on through the night.
0:45.6	So how significant were these votes?
0:47.4	We're going to crunch the numbers,
0:48.8	and in a week of rail strikes and another rise in inflation,
0:52.7	tell you what it all means for the government in
0:54.8	our view and after taking in the developments in Devon and West Yorkshire we'll
0:58.8	continue our tour of England because the IFG team have been on the road again this time
1:02.9	to Manchester as part of our series interviewing England's mayors.
1:06.5	It's people like Andy Street, Tracy Braven, Steve Rotherham and Andy Burnham. Are they doing a good job? Do they need more power? They would say so. Does the government want to give them that? A new report of ours digs into those questions, so we're going to ask one of the authors to explain why. All that to come. Two IFG colleagues are with me throughout this podcast. Deputy Director Hannah White,
1:29.1	hi Hannah. Hi, Hannah. Hi, Bonwin. And senior fellow Giles Wilkes. Hi, Giles. Good morning, Bobner.
1:34.7	Good morning. And I'm delighted to be joined as well by James Johnson, a former Downing Street
1:39.6	Holster for Theresa May and who now runs JL partners. Hi, James. Good morning. Very good to have you with us.
1:46.5	Let's kick off with those by-election results. James, perhaps I can come to you first. How do the
1:52.0	results tally with the polling that we had in advance? Well, we saw two polls for Wakefield in advance,
1:59.0	one by Servation and one by my firm Jail Partners.
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