Roll Out To Help Out

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 4 December 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The world’s first green light for a COVID vaccine is a clear boost of the Government. But how can they ensure the right people take it without falling back on strong-arm tactics? Also, who’s rebelling against the Government’s COVID restrictions and why? Special guest Iain Dale – Conservative columnist and LBC presenter – explains how his new book The Prime Ministers names Britain’s good, bad and ugly Premiers. Will the end of the Fixed Term Parliaments Act open a Pandora’s Box of constitutional wrangling? And Brexit. It’s still not sorted. “If there isn’t a Deal with the EU, it will be the biggest failure of statecraft in modern times.” – Iain Dale “When a government is upsetting its mainstream, moderate MPs it’s in trouble.” – Iain Dale “If the Government gets the vaccine rollout right, that’s a genuine reset. If they get it wrong, that’s a disaster.” – Alex Thomas “The worst kind of Prime Minister is an indecisive one.” – Iain Dale “It seems ridiculous that a Prime Minister can choose an election at a time they think they’re going to win… Except often, they choose the time and still lose.” – Iain Dale Presented by Bronwen Maddox with Alex Thomas and Maddy Thimont-Jack. 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 to inside briefing. I'm Bronwyn Maddox. One of these days we'll gather in our
0:16.0	virtual studio at the end of a quiet news week, but this isn't one of those days, and we haven't had one of those
0:21.2	weeks for a long time. COVID-19 vaccine has been approved, and rollout begins next week.
0:26.5	Is this the beginning of the end of the pandemic? The prime minister suffered a big rebellion in the
0:31.5	commons as this is the beginning of the end of his dominant position in the Conservative Party,
0:35.5	something we're going to talk about. And the Brexit deal is, breaking news, still not done yet.
0:40.7	So it's not the end of Brexit.
0:42.6	To talk through all of that, I'm joined by the terrific IFG duo of Alex Thomas, who leads
0:47.5	all our work on the civil service.
0:49.1	Hi, Alex.
0:49.9	Hi, Abram.
0:50.8	And by Maddie Timot-Jack, who leads our Brexit team.
0:53.2	Hi, Maddie.
0:54.0	Hi, Maomynne. And by Maddie Timot-Jack, who leads our Brexit team. Hi, Maddie.
0:55.5	And I'm delighted that we're joined today by Ian Dale, LBC presenter, podcast host, Pundit,
1:00.6	and the author of a new book looking at the last 55 prime ministers,
1:03.8	which we're going to talk about later on.
1:05.5	Hi, Ian, where are you? How are you?
1:07.0	Hello, I'm in Tumberidge Wells, thriving at the moment.
1:12.3	Thanks very much for joining us.
1:17.3	Okay, let's start with the latest coronavirus developments inside and outside the comments.
1:21.9	We have the news that the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine has been approved and that was greeted with delight pretty much everywhere, although it's also given a shot in the arm, sorry, to the
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