Good chaps and bad apples

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

4.6 • 252 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Rishi Sunak pledged to lead a government of integrity after the high-profile scandals of the Boris Johnson era, but Angela Rayner says only a Labour government would restore trust in politics. The podcast team, with guest Rachel Wearmouth of the New Statesman, review the Labour deputy leader’s big speech at the IfG – and examine whether she has come up with a workable plan. Plus: Simon says what exactly? What did we learn from a rare public appearance by embattled cabinet secretary Simon Case. What follows first past the post? A new IfG report looks at the knock-on implications of changing the UK’s electoral system. Mastering the Art of the Devolution Deal. How Westminster – and local government – can make a success of giving away power. Catherine Haddon presents. With Alex Thomas, Jack Pannell and Peter Hourston. Produced by Podmasters. 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.
0:15.0	I'm Catherine Hadden, today's podcast host. Simon Case, remember him? He was giving evidence
0:20.4	in Parliament on the role of the
0:21.7	Cabinet Secretary this week. Meanwhile, Angela Rainer, Labor's deputy leader, was here at the
0:26.7	IFG just a few hours ago, giving a speech on how to restore standards and ethics in government.
0:31.9	It's hard to find two more IFG-ish subjects, so we're going to take a look at what both Case
0:37.2	and Rainer have been saying. And then we're going to take a look at what both case and Rainer have been saying.
0:39.3	And then we're going to explore whether it's time for a new voting system in this country,
0:43.3	or rather what the knock-on implications would be if we got rid of first past the post.
0:49.0	Because it goes way further than just how people vote, we've got a new IFG paper out today on just that subject. We'll
0:56.4	talk to its author. After that, we'll leave Westminster and check in on how power is devolved
1:01.5	from Westminster and across England. Has the art of the devolution deal been mastered by the people
1:07.5	delivering those deals? We're not so sure. Springsteen, Blur, Pulp, Beyonce.
1:12.2	The big names have been hitting the London stages this summer, but the stellar line-up you want this
1:16.6	weekend is all here on the IFG podcast. Alex Thomas, our programme director for civil service work,
1:22.7	is mic'd up and ready to go. Hi, Alex. Hi, Kath. Yes. Those of us of a certain generation
1:27.4	have had lots of friends watching Blur in particular over Alex. Hi, Kath. Yes. Those of us of a certain generation have had lots of
1:28.0	friends watching Blur in particular over the last week or so. Yeah. And I'm delighted that we're
1:34.0	joined today by Rachel Weirmouth, the New Statesman's deputy political editor. Hi, Rachel. How are you?
1:39.8	You ready to do. Hello. I'm very well, thank you. Yes. Hi. Let's start with this morning's big IFG speech by Angela Raina.
1:47.4	Alex, you were here for it. What is Raina trying to do? Yeah, it was interesting, definitely worth
1:53.2	watch. I think she, fundamentally, I think she's trying to position the Labour Party as strong on ethics.
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