Gloves off for Truss v Starmer

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

4.6 • 252 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Liz Truss has been to New York, Keir Starmer is on his way to Liverpool, and the IfG podcast team assemble in the studio to discuss a week where politics began to return to normal – albeit against the unpleasant backdrop of Vladimir Putin’s threat of nuclear war. Guest Ayesha Hazarika dials in to discuss the new prime minister’s first steps on the world stage, some big government policy announcements at home, and what to look out for at Labour’s annual party conference. Plus: If Liz Truss is all about delivery, then how can she make government departments deliver? The team discuss a new IfG report which recommends the step she should – and shouldn’t – take. Hannah White presents. With Alex Thomas and Rhys Clyne. 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 Reefing, the podcast from the Institute for Government. I'm Hannah White.
0:15.9	After Monday's state funeral for the Queen, attended by the world's presidents and prime ministers, monarchs and media, the official period of mourning is over.
0:23.6	Normal politics has resumed. Except it doesn't feel all that normal. Vladimir Putin, who is very much not invited on Monday, is threatening nuclear war, again.
0:34.6	And against that worrying backdrop, the government is gearing up for what is in all
0:38.4	the name a budget, and the Labour Party is set to gather in Liverpool for its annual conference.
0:44.4	Meanwhile, Liz Truss, whose first days as Prime Minister were, it's safe to say without hyperbole
0:49.0	unprecedented, has been taking her first steps on the global stage at a major UN gathering.
0:54.8	We're going to be discussing all of that, as well as looking at a recent IFG report on what governments need to do
1:00.7	if they want to ensure they deliver their priorities, that being, of course, what governments should want to do
1:06.3	and what Liz Trust has made much of her ability to do.
1:10.4	Joining me in the studio is IFG Programme Director Alex Thomas. Hi Alex. Hi, Anna.
1:15.9	And I'm delighted to be joined for her IFG podcast debut by Aisha Hazareka, Times Radio presenter,
1:22.8	political columnist for the I and the Standard, and a former advisor to Labour leader leader Ed Miliband. Hi, Aisha. How are you?
1:29.1	Hello, I'm very excited to be on this excellent podcast. I love it, so it's great honour to be
1:33.6	part of it. Well, that's great to have you. So before we get on to this week's politics, can I ask
1:39.4	about Monday? Aisha, you were broadcasting throughout the funeral, I think. How was that experience? What stood
1:44.6	out for you from it? Well, it was an extraordinary thing to have played a small part in. I had done a lot of
1:53.3	broadcasting with ITN and then I was working with an American network, CBS News. It was actually
1:59.4	really interesting seeing how the Americans were
2:02.7	covering this day. I mean, they were just doing wall-to-wall coverage. But what was, I think,
2:09.4	interesting in terms of the way the British media covered it compared to the way the American
2:14.5	media covered it was that with the British coverage,
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