Hello and welcome to Inside Briefing, the podcast from the Institute for Government. I'm Hannah White.

Was this the week the general election starting pistol got fired or has the Conservative Party's circular firing squad taken some pre-election

pot shots? On Monday former Prime Minister Liz Truss gave a speech at the IFG which, and I pray see here,

set out why she had made the right decisions on the economy and why Rishi Sunak was getting

things wrong. So is this the start of a significant ideological battle within the governing party,

or a sign of a possible post-election

bloodbath to come. Trusts also called for a rowback on the government's net zero plans and

48 hours later Rishi Sunak did just that. So what is the PM announced and how will it play

into the next general election? And then we take a look at the ongoing impact of another

former Prime Minister on UK politics.

Boris Johnson's time in office saw the UK constitution stretch to and arguably beyond breaking point.

So what needs to be done to fix it?

A new IFG report has the answers. We'll talk to one of its authors.

Joining me throughout is IFG Senior Fellow and NetZero watcher, Jill Rutter. Hi, Jill. Hi, Hannah.

And I'm delighted that we're joined throughout by the Daily Telegal's political editor, Ben Riley Smith. Hi, Ben.

Hello. How are things going?

They're going well, yeah. I'm ruthlessly self-promoting, but I've come to terms with that.

Very glad to have you. Self-promoting on our pod. Why don't you tell us a bit more? Well, it is a book called The Right to Rule, and it is an attempt to step back a little bit and

look back right back to 2010 and try to pull the threads together of this conservative

run in power, because it has been remarkable. Five prime ministers back to back, nobody's done that

for two centuries. They've overtaken new labour now. I mean, think how much we

talk in the political discourse about the Blair and Brown years. And it's trying to make sense of

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