Stop boats, get votes?

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

4.6 • 252 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Channel 4’s political editor Gary Gibbon joins the IfG podcast team to examine whether the government’s controversial new asylum bill will actually work, and whether the politics of promising to stop the boats will win the Conservatives support – and pose a headache for Labour. Boris Johnson wants to knight his father. So is it time for Rishi Sunak to do away with the increasingly farcical tradition of prime ministerial resignation honours? And talking of abolitions, why do governments so often seek to abolish public bodies – and why does it so often go wrong? A new IfG report has the answers. Hannah White presents. With Alex Thomas, Rhys Clyne and Grant Dalton. Produced by Candice McKenzie 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.
0:15.0	I'm Hannah White. Well, fans of three-word political slogans have a new one for their collection, but we'll
0:22.6	stop the boats, and yes we're going to be hearing a lot more of that one, cut through
0:26.6	in the way the government hopes.
0:27.6	What exactly is its policy and will it work in the way ministers want?
0:31.6	We'll take a look at Rishi-Soonak's controversial new asylum plan.
0:36.6	Then, and dare I say it, yet again, we will turn to the headaches that a former
0:41.4	Prime Minister is causing for the current occupant of number 10.
0:45.2	Yes, Royce Johnson is back in the news, was he ever away?
0:48.6	And this time with the plan to knight his father, Stanley.
0:51.9	So is it time to abolish the system of prime ministerial resignation
0:55.4	honours? And talking about abolishing things, that's something this government has been
1:00.5	rather keen to do when it comes to public sector bodies, including things like public health
1:05.7	England. And in the past, we've seen the demise of the Audit Commission or the UK Border Agency.
1:11.6	All of those have gone and more might be going to follow.
1:14.8	But why is it abolition so often go wrong and what can be done to make them a success?
1:19.4	Well, we've got a new IFG paper out on just that and we'll be talking to its author.
1:23.9	Joining me throughout the programme will be IFG programme director and one-time senior civil servant Alex Thomas.
1:29.2	Hi Alex.
1:30.0	Hi, Anna.
1:30.9	And I'm delighted that Gary Gibbon, political editor of Channel 4 News, is also with us.
1:35.4	Hi, Gary.
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