The Leverage Report

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 17 January 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Who’s really got the whip hand during Britain’s post-Brexit negotiations with the EU? Special guest RACHEL SYLVESTER of The Times joins us to look at whether Boris Johnson can play the brinkmanship game again when it comes to new trade arrangements with our European friends. Plus, we talk to LIAM FOX about starting a government department from scratch, that putative Trump trade deal, and whether he got the Brexit he wanted. Why do ex-ministers heap praise on individual civil servants but rail against the Civil Service in general? The surprise return of self-government in Northern Ireland. And our data guru Gavin Freeguard turns Freedom of Information requests into free jazz. He’s got all the right requests, just not in the right order. “Brexit WILL be done in the narrow sense... but what exactly are we doing with the control we take back?” – Joe Owen “There’s been a Roundheads vs Cavaliers divide in politics and Labour have been the joyless Roundheads. The next Labour leader will need to be someone who can spark some joy in the country.” – Rachel Sylvester Hosted by Bronwen Maddox with Cath Haddon, Joe Owen, Jess Sargeant and Gavin Freeguard. 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	Welcome back to Inside Briefing, the Institute for Government podcast.
0:13.9	Westminster is waiting. We know there's a reshuffle coming. We suspect there might be some new government departments.
0:20.0	We're watching as Brexit legislation progresses quietly through Parliament,
0:23.7	and the UK heads towards the EU exit door.
0:27.2	And Dominic Cummings hasn't written a blog post for over a week.
0:31.5	But after the Brexit bust-ups of the last three years,
0:34.0	Whitehall is braced for change.
0:35.3	We'll look at what that might mean.
0:37.2	The UK will leave the EU on January 31 change. We'll look at what that might mean. The UK will leave
0:38.0	the EU on January 31st. We will discuss why getting Brexit done doesn't mean that Brexit is
0:43.5	anywhere close to being finished. And after more than a thousand days without sitting, the Northern
0:48.1	Ireland Assembly has returned. We'll look at how a new power sharing agreement in stormant was
0:52.6	finally secured. Liam Fox, the former international trade secretary, came to the Institute this week to give a speech on his vision for reforming government in the Brexit age.
1:01.8	We've interviewed him for the podcast coming up later.
1:04.8	I'm joined in the studio by a stellar panel.
1:07.2	Joe Owen, our Brexit program director, is back.
1:09.5	Hi, Joe.
1:10.0	Hello.
1:12.1	Joe, we had some dramatic late nights in the office last year when the government was losing those historic votes. Where were
1:16.1	you when the withdrawal agreement bill sailed through the Commons this week with no problem
1:20.1	at all? Yeah, well, it was much earlier as well, wasn't it? It was only about 5 o'clock. There was none
1:24.2	of the like 10pm sitting on your sofa watching BBC Parliament.
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