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Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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As Boris Johnson struggles to shake off questions about standards and MPs’ second jobs, what’s the latest in the never-ending row gripping Westminster? Also how did the Government scramble supplies of PPE during the pandemic peak? The data has been released so we take a closer look. And John Swinney, Deputy First Minister of Scotland gave a talk at the IFG, and he didn’t hold back. Our special guest is HENRY DYER, politics reporter for Business Insider, specialising in political financing, appointments and data-driven investigations. “We all lose when people don’t have faith in Parliament as an institution” - ALICE LILLEY “The UK’s stockpile of PPE was much too small, we hadn’t prepared for this” - TOM SASSE “According to John Swinney, the Government is undermining devolution” - AKASH PAUN “A lot of MPs currently in jobs are thinking ‘am I going to be able continuing doing these jobs or not?’” - HANNAH WHITE Presented by Tim Durrant with Hannah White, Alice Lilley, Tom Sasse and Akash Paun. Audio production by Alex Rees. Inside Briefing is a Podmasters Production for the IfG. https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Inside Briefing, the podcast from the Institute for Government.
0:14.2	My name is Tim Durant, IFG Associate Director and this week's presenter.
0:18.6	Boris Johnson can't shake off questions about standards in Parliament and MP's
0:22.0	jobs and their second jobs. Neither can we. We're keeping track of the latest developments in the fast-moving
0:27.8	and seemingly never-ending row that is gripping Western. We're then going to shift gear and slip into
0:33.2	the VIP lane, also known as the high-priority lane. This week we've heard about the way the government scrambled to secure supplies of personal protective equipment, PPE, during the pandemic.
0:43.0	Data has just been released about a whole load of contracts.
0:45.3	We're going to take a look at what it tells us.
0:47.7	And after that, we're heading north of the border.
0:49.9	This week, John Swinney, the Deputy First Minister of Scotland, gave a talk at the IFG, and he did not hold back.
0:56.3	More of that to come.
0:58.3	It really has been a packed week.
1:00.6	The Prime Minister had pretty much lost his voice by the end of it, but I'm delighted to be joined by an IFG colleague who has no such problems.
1:07.0	In fact, she hasn't really stopped talking about this since the whole jobs and standards ral blew up.
1:11.6	Hannah White, our deputy director, joins me now.
1:13.6	Hi, Hannah.
1:14.0	How are you doing?
1:15.0	Yeah, I'm good.
1:15.6	Thanks, Tim.
1:16.9	And I'm delighted that we're joined by Henry Dyer, politics reporter insider.
1:20.4	Hi, Henry.
1:21.3	You were called a tool by Dominic Cummings on Twitter the other day.
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