Scapegoats or snowflakes?

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 28 April 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Dominic Raab’s exit from government hasn’t drawn a line under the simmering tensions between ministers and civil servants. So have expectations of behaviour changed or has snowflakery broken out in Whitehall? The IfG podcast team asks what this all means for the future of the civil service. The Foreign Office is trying to manage another tricky evacuation of UK nationals from an increasingly dangerous situation – so how well is it responding to the crisis in Sudan? And why did the Treasury end up creating a “tug of war” at the heart of government during the Covid pandemic? A major new IfG report reveals all. Hannah White presents. With Cath Haddon, Alex Thomas, Tim Durrant and Gemma Tetlow. Produced by Milo Hynes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this episode of Inside Briefing, the podcast from the Institute for Government.
0:14.1	I'm Hannah White. So has the departure of Dominic Raab from government drawn a line under the
0:19.7	simmering tensions between
0:20.9	ministers and civil servants?
0:22.8	No, not really.
0:24.1	If anything, relations appear to be getting worse.
0:26.9	How should ministers work with officials to deliver their priorities?
0:30.3	Have expectations of behaviour changed?
0:32.5	Or has snowflakeery broken out?
0:34.5	Perhaps it is time to reform or maybe politicise the civil service.
0:38.3	The big story this week isn't taking place in Westminster, but in Sudan, where we're seeing
0:43.3	another tricky evacuation of UK nationals from an increasingly dangerous situation.
0:47.3	We assess what we know about the foreign offices' handling of this crisis.
0:51.3	And then we'll turn our attention to another department's handling of a crisis, and that's
0:55.6	the Treasury's response to the COVID pandemic.
0:58.0	A major new IFG report out this week has examined its performance under those extraordinary
1:02.4	and unprecedented times.
1:04.3	We'll talk to one of the report's sources.
1:07.0	I'm joined throughout by a trio of IFG experts and podcast regulars to make sense of it all.
1:11.7	And that's Alex Thomas.
1:12.7	Hi, Anna.
1:13.2	Tim Durant.
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