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

I'm Hannah White. It is exactly one year since the 2024 general election campaign kicked off in earnest.

On the 30th of May,

2014 Parliament was dissolved. MPs became candidates and large numbers of our political

class faced the prospect of a huge job change. Some ministers ceased to be MPs, some MPs returned

as ministers and some entirely new MPs and peers became ministers. Now, after nearly 12 months in place, recess offers those new ministers a chance to step back and assess their own performance and how well they're learning on the job.

Reshuffle rumours, after all, are never far away in Westminster, but is a reshuffle a good way to inject energy into a not quite so new government?

What is it risk sending the government, of course?

What calculations will the Prime Minister be making?

We will delve into what makes for a successful minister and the factors that go into reshuffle calculations.

And if that wasn't enough to focus ministerial minds, a spending review is looming, as is obvious from the final negotiations playing out in the media.

This is actually the second spending review undertaken by this government, although the first fully-fledged one.

We'll take a look at what's going on and what being in a spending review process is really like.

And finally, if that's not enough ministers' viewing,

we'll take a look back at some of those who left in 2024.

The RFG gift that keeps on giving,

this week we published some more of our fantastic Ministers Reflect interviews.

We'll explore the latest crop.

Joining me throughout is Tim Durant,

program director for our minister's work and Gemateau, our chief economist. Welcome both.

Hi, Hannah. Thank you. And I'm delighted that we're joined today by Adam Payne,

editor of Politics Home and friend of the podcast. Welcome back, Adam. Thank you very much for

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