Hello and welcome to Inside Briefing, the podcast from the Institute for Government.

I'm Hannah White, Director of the Institute.

Well, that didn't take long, did it? Rishi Sunak has barely been Prime Minister for a fortnight,

and we've already seen his first ministerial resignation.

Gavin Williamson has shut up and gone away.

Again, perhaps that's the last we'll be hearing about his infamous pet tarantula cronos for a while.

We'll take a look at Williamson's resignation, what it means for Sunak's government,

and what the PM needs to do now to demonstrate that his commitment to integrity is genuine.

On the subject of turning words into action, we'll be catching up on Richard Sunak's appearance

at the COP 27 summit and ask whether his government has a credible plan for hitting its net zero

target. And then we'll look ahead to next week and the biggest

challenge yet for the Prime Minister. And that's the unveiling of the government's long-awaited,

much delayed, often rebadged and endlessly rewritten fiscal plan. To discuss all this, I'm in the

studio today with RFG senior fellow Kath Haddon and Tom Sass, our associate director and expert on

all things net zero. Hi, both.

Hi, Hannah.

And I'm delighted that we're joined by Henry Hill, deputy editor at Conservative Home. Hi, Henry.

Hello.

Thanks for joining us. Before we get going on life in the Westminster jungle, Henry, I have to

ask, how do you rank Matt Hancock's I'm a Celebrity Gamble against the reality TV escapades

of other MPs? I mean, it's crushingly tragic. It's, it's genuinely hard to sum up how utterly,

utterly divorced, he seems. But again, other people have done it. You know, Nadine Dorese went into the jungle and she

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