The Rishi Reshuffle

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

Politics, News, Government

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🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Summer is nearly over. Parliament is set to return. And the Inside Briefing team is back to take stock of the last few months – and look ahead to what a lively couple of months might bring. Ben Wallace is out, Grant Shapps is the new defence secretary, and Claire Coutinho has become the youngest member of the cabinet. But what does Rishi Sunak’s mini-reshuffle tell us about his priorities for government – and is there a better way to go about appointing government ministers? What should we look out for at the party conference season? How is the economy faring and are tax cuts at all likely? And what stage of the Nando’s spice scale is politics going to hit this autumn? Hannah White presents. With Joe Owen, Cath Haddon and Tom Pope. Produced by Milo Hynes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Inside Briefing, the podcast from the Institute for Government.
0:14.0	Summer is almost done. A reshuffle has already been completed and Nadine Dories has, after
0:20.0	keeping the Westminster press
0:21.2	pack rather busy, finally gone.
0:23.5	At least we think so.
0:24.7	So, after a short break from politics, and we probably all needed one, inside briefing is
0:29.6	up and running again, here to take a deep breath and take stock the last few months and to look
0:34.2	ahead to what will definitely be a lively autumn for Rishi Sunak, Kirstama,
0:38.1	and everyone working in, around and following British politics. From reshuffles to more by-elections,
0:43.5	party conferences, to the return of Parliament, pledges, missions and more besides, we've got plenty
0:47.7	to discuss today. And I'm delighted that back in the studio with me, after a few years working
0:52.5	away as a civil servant in the heart of government
0:54.8	is the RFG's new director of impact, Joe Owen. Hello, Joe. Hello. Have you decompressed?
1:01.6	I think so. I've had a lovely summer back at IFG Towers and has only taken me two months to start
1:07.9	mouthing off on podcasts again.
1:12.9	Delighted to have you here to mouth off.
1:15.6	We're also joined by Tom Pope, our Deputy Chief Economist.
1:16.0	Hi Tom.
1:16.5	Hi, Hannah.
1:20.1	Did you have a summer break from thinking about interest rates and inflation and so on?
1:22.7	Yeah, managed a bit of time off from thinking about those things.
1:26.9	Although you had an excellent piece out this week addressing just those things.
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