Inside the Brexit endgame – plus Hilary Benn MP

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 18 October 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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How can we make government work more effectively? What are Brexit and the current political tumult doing to our institutions? What needs to change in our system of government – and how can we change it? We’ll explore all these things and more on INSIDE BRIEFING, the new podcast from the Institute for Government, Britain’s leading governmental think tank. This week: As the most momentous weekend of the Brexit saga looms, we look at the detail of the Johnson Deal and how it might play out in the Commons. Could we get an accidental No Deal after all? Special guest Giles Wilkes joins us to explain his detailed IfG report on on what No Deal would really mean for business. And we talk to Hilary Benn MP, Chair of the Brexit Select Committee, on the workings of the Act that bears his name (colloquially at least). Will it come into effect and what would the consequences be? Presented by Bronwen Maddox with the IfG’s Hannah White, Cath Haddon and Joe Owen. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. Theme music: ‘The Breakbeat’ by TwoCatsGang under licence from audiojungle.net See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Inside Briefing, the brand new weekly podcast from the Institute for Government,
0:18.1	and it could hardly be a livelier week to start on. I'm Bronwyn Maddox, I'm Director of the Institute, which was set up to make government work better.
0:25.6	Why do governments get so many things wrong?
0:28.6	How do they manage to get some things right?
0:30.6	What does Brexit mean for how government works?
0:33.6	And what does Brexit mean for how the United Kingdom works?
0:36.6	So the shock waves of that 2016 referendum continue to be felt throughout Westminster and the world.
0:42.3	How might our politics, our Parliament and our entire Constitution change in the years, months, weeks, even hours to come?
0:50.3	These questions and many more are at the heart of what we do at the Institute for Government,
0:54.8	and we're going to be looking at them every week on Inside Briefing with the IFG.
0:58.8	So don't forget to subscribe on your favourite podcast app, whether it's Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or another platform.
1:10.1	I'm delighted to be joined in the studio by my IFG colleagues.
1:13.9	Historian, Kath Haddon.
1:15.5	For historians, this is also quite a lively time.
1:18.0	It is a very lively time.
1:19.6	Very pleased to be able to talk about this here today.
1:22.4	And at the moment, mostly doing quite a bit of constitutional agony arts is what I'm calling myself.
1:27.8	Hannah White, you're our deputy director,
1:29.2	and you used to be Clark in the House of Commons,
1:31.5	and Parliament has suddenly become centre stage in all these things.
1:34.9	Yes, it's quite a time to be someone who knows about how Parliament works,
1:37.6	and I do find myself trying to work out if I was still back in the House of Commons
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