Is Whitehall broken and how might it be repaired?

Not Another One

Richards Green Montgomerie Martin

Politics, News, Political, Political Commentary, Prime Minister, General Election, Number 10, Not Another One, Rishi Sunak

4.7 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In the latest episode our team discuss three pressing issues, including the state of the civil service and government concern that the machine is not fit for purpose. Plus, the OBR. Has the government put too much faith in the pronouncements of the Office for Budget Responsibility? Is this approach crippling British policymaking? And Tim, Steve and Iain assess the quality of today’s MPs. Has there been a decline and if so why?

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0:00.0	Welcome to Not Another One.
0:12.7	I'm Tim Montgomery and joined in the studio in Soho this week.
0:16.0	Last week I was all on my own.
0:17.4	But Steve Richards, you're here and Ian Martin is back from Scotland.
0:21.3	Hello. But we've lost Miranda to a quick break in Italy, I think. And didn't she make it
0:27.3	spontaneously? It's always been my fantasy to do the thing of waking up and say, oh, why don't we
0:32.5	go to Italy? I've never pulled that off, that spontaneous leap towards sunshine.
0:39.3	It was a great thing.
0:40.3	I think they just spotted that the weather was fantastic, you know, 23, 24 degrees and just said, well, why not?
0:47.0	Yeah, it's the dream.
0:48.3	Yeah, it is.
0:49.0	Have you overdone that?
0:50.2	No, not that spontaneous.
0:52.2	No, no, no.
0:53.0	Without saying too much about Miranda's domestic arrangements,
0:56.0	lots of people now have, you know, they can't do spontaneous visits
1:00.0	when they have kids.
1:01.0	And now, because of, you know, older people living longer,
1:04.0	they often have responsibility to look after older people.
1:07.0	So I think Miranda's mum is well at the moment and I think that's enabled to go.
1:13.1	So we miss you Miranda.
1:15.2	Yep.
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