Parliament’s wake-up call for Government, the future of tax and David Lidington MP

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

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🗓️ 1 November 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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As the 2017-2019 Parliament ends and Britain girds itself for a General Election, how will this Parliament be viewed by history? Has it perhaps done its job better than some people think? Will future governments need to do things differently now that Parliament has flexed its muscles? “Backbenchers have found that they can get together, form coalitions and do things that Government doesn’t want,” says Hannah White. “That’s a real wake-up call for Government.” Plus: The loneliness of the long-distance Cabinet minister. What do potential ministers need to look out for? Could we really get by without a budget at all? And might No Deal come back from the dead at the end of the General Election? Also, our Chief Economist Gemma Tetlow drop in to explain everything you didn’t know - but need to know - about the strange and precarious future of taxation. If good behaviour from the public is bad for the tax base, how will we pay for the things we need? And we speak to David Lidington, the former de facto Prime Minister who’s now stepping down as a Conservative MP, on the lasting legacy of this Parliament. Hosted by Bronwen Maddox with Cath Haddon, Joe Owen, Hannah White and Gavin Freeguard. Audio production by Robin Leeburn at Fairly Media. 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 new weekly podcast from the Institute for Government.
0:16.4	I'm Bronwen Maddox with another look at the week and what it tells us about how government works
0:20.9	and doesn't. This week, well, he got there in the end. Boris Johnson has his general election,
0:27.2	but not his Brexit deal. Johnson wants this to be the Brexit election. Joe Swinson, leader of the
0:34.4	Liberal Democrats, wants it to be the stop Brexit election. And Jeremy Corbyn, every Liberal Democrats, wants it to be the stop Brexit election.
0:38.4	And Jeremy Corbyn, every sign shows, wants it to be the don't mention Brexit election.
0:43.8	So what happens during this six-week battle?
0:46.8	And what does the result actually mean for Brexit and many other things?
0:54.6	To shine some light on it all, I'm joined in the studio by some of my IFG colleagues.
0:58.8	Joe Owen is director of our Brexit program. Hi, Joe.
1:01.2	Hello.
1:01.8	Joe, you wrote a piece about the Royal Mint this week. What has that got to do with Brexit?
1:05.3	So this was about our Brexit commemorative 50p coins and now how we are on to at least our third design as the date keeps changing.
1:14.2	So we can't get a commemorative issue with all three of the dates on 50p pieces.
1:19.1	And you just heard her then. Dr. Catherine Haddon is our in-house historian. Hi, Kath.
1:23.2	Hi. On last week's show, you predicted that nothing would happen this week. So close?
1:28.0	I was right for a few hours, a few days even, because I said that the, you know, withdrawal agreement wouldn't be brought back,
1:35.3	that they wouldn't pass the Fixed Turned Parliament's Act.
1:37.8	I've said it already, Joe, votes on a general election that the government might go on strike or threaten to go on strike.
1:43.8	And they did do that for a few days, but everything has now changed.
1:46.4	All right.
1:46.6	So from the government's point of view, quite a lot of nothing happened before finally the election.
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