The Queen, the King and the Constitution

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

4.6 • 252 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The FT’s Stephen Bush joins the IfG team in the podcast studio, just a few hundred metres away from Buckingham Palace, to make sense of an extraordinary moment in British history. What does the death of Queen Elizabeth II, after a record-breaking 70-year reign, mean for the Royal Family? How will King Charles III approach the role of monarch? And what questions will now be asked about the role of the monarch in the constitution, how the King interacts with politics and how ministers engage with the King? Presented by Hannah White with Catherine Haddon and Maddy Thimont-Jack. Produced by Candice McKenzie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Inside Briefing, the podcast from the Institute for Government.
0:14.3	I'm Hannah White. We're living through truly extraordinary and historic times.
0:20.2	Last Tuesday, a new Prime Minister Liz Truss was appointed by the Queen, the 15th of her reign.
0:25.6	Just over 48 hours later at 6.30 on Thursday afternoon, Buckingham Palace announced
0:30.6	that Queen Elizabeth II had died peacefully at Bamal.
0:34.6	On Saturday, at St James's Palace in London and then all around the country,
0:39.3	Charles III was proclaimed king. Politics is on hold, with the country adjusting to, perhaps
0:46.2	coming to terms with, the end of a reign that had lasted for 70 record-breaking years, and the crowning
0:52.2	of a king who, at 73, was the longest-serving heir apparent
0:56.2	in British history to succeed to the throne. So, as the preparations for the late Queen's
1:02.7	state funeral continue, and the country follows the new king's first steps and statements,
1:08.0	inside briefing has returned to try and make sense of what is happening and ask
1:12.2	what this ending of an era might mean for this country. We're here in the IFG studio a few hundred
1:18.3	metres away from Buckingham Palace and with the roads around us closing and lined with ever-growing
1:22.9	crowds. Kath Haddon, our senior fellow and expert on all things constitutional, is here with us. Hi, Kath.
1:29.2	Hello.
1:30.1	And Maddie Tiemont Jack, is IFG Associate Director and the lead on a major IFG review into the Constitution, is here too.
1:37.0	Hello, Maddie.
1:37.7	Hi, Hannah.
1:38.8	And I'm delighted that we're joined again by Stephen Bush, Associate Editor and columnist at the Financial Times.
1:44.1	Hi, Stephen. Thank you for joining us.
1:45.6	Hello, thanks for having me.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Institute for Government, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Institute for Government and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.