Johnson unbound? Election results special

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Government, Politics

4.5 • 278 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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It’s the general election result we half-expected – but few thought it would upset politics on such a seismic scale. Aside from the party tumult, will Boris Johnson’s giant majority mean wholesale change for the way Whitehall does business? How can he resolve the tension between what the Conservatives promised and what their tax commitments can deliver? And beneath the surface, the hidden issue of British fish. Does Boris grasp the scale of the problem? Plus the Election result could mean big changes to the very fabric of the United Kingdom. As the SNP’s calls for a second Independence Referendum in Scotland grow louder, the IfG’s Akash Paun explains the constitutional challenges presented by IndyRef2. You can read the IfG’s special report here. All this plus Gavin Freeguard’s statistical box of delights. “Johnson’s now making the weather. So what does he want?” – Joe Owen Hosted by Bronwen Maddox with Cath Haddon, Hannah White, Gemma Tetlow, Joe Owen and – plus Gavin Freeguard and Akash Paun. Audio production by Alex Rees. 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. Well, here we are.
0:12.2	37 days since the dissolution of Parliament, 142 days since Boris Johnson first became
0:18.1	Prime Minister, and 917 days since the last election.
0:22.6	We finally reached the other side of possibly the most consequential and intense election campaign of modern times.
0:29.6	And now we have the Parliament that will be running Britain for better or worse for the next five years, probably.
0:35.2	I'm Bronwyn Maddox, director of the Institute for Government, and general elections are
0:39.1	like Christmas to us, particularly when they come at Christmas.
0:41.8	There's lots of running around, late nights, you have to make polite conversation with
0:45.4	people you might not like, and in the end, you just want to collapse with a drink.
0:49.2	But there's no rest for us.
0:50.5	On the special edition of Inside Briefing, we're going to make sense of what happened
0:54.2	and see where it might lead British politics into the 2020s. Joining me and looking remarkably
1:00.7	lively, despite having had about 45 minutes sleep each, we have. First, our senior fellow,
1:05.7	Kath Haddon, Kath, hi. Hello. Our deputy director, Hannah White. Hello. The Director of our Brexit program, Joe Owen.
1:13.6	Hi.
1:14.6	And our Chief Economist, Gemmottelo.
1:15.6	Hello.
1:16.6	Who's already done one long event this morning with us today.
1:19.6	Kathy, you're in the BBC Green Room all night.
1:21.6	How did the exit poll go down?
1:23.6	It's one of those weird things, isn't it?
1:25.6	The mood is always a little bit flat because everyone's a bit sort of confused.
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