The Third Way… by Boris Johnson?

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 14 May 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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What do the thirty bills in that very brief Queen’s Speech tell us about No.10’s true priorities, and whatever happened to social care? How is this delivery-obsessed Government doing against its 2019 manifesto commitments? Plus LATIKA BOURKE, a London-based journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, joins us to look at Australia’s draconian but hugely popular COVID response – and its strangely slothful vaccination effort. What can Britain learn from the way Australia tackled Coronavirus? • “Economically this Queen’s Speech was disappointing… It’s as if nothing has changed since January 2020.” – Giles Wilkes • “I’m always amused by this ‘manifesto commitment’ idea you have in the UK, and the idea that governments might keep their promises…” – Latika Bourke • “I’d like to see what Conservative Party this is. Are they going to deregulate, or invest… or have they found some Third Way?” – Giles Wilkes • “In Australia, this pandemic feels like something that’s happening to other people somewhere else.” – Sarah Nickson • “Australia’s isolationist COVID response will damage Australia’s soft power around the world. It’s as if we’ve shirked our responsibilities to the world.” – Latika Bourke Presented by Bronwen Maddox with Giles Wilkes and Sarah Nickson. Audio production by Alex Rees. Inside Briefing is a Podmasters Production for the IfG. 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	Hello and welcome to Inside Briefing, the podcast from the Institute for Government.
0:15.0	I'm Bronwyn Maddox. The pomp and ceremony was dialed down and the word count was pretty low too. But what does this very
0:22.2	brisk Queen's speech tell us about this government's priorities? Lots of leveling up, but not much
0:28.1	saying what that means, we're going to fill in the gaps. We've also looked back at the promises in the
0:33.2	2019 Conservative Manifesto. We counted 287 of them to see how much progress the government is making on those.
0:41.3	Some good news, some not so good news, we're going to give you the scorecard.
0:45.9	And we're going to take a trip to find out more about Australia's apparently impressive handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and asks what happens as the world opens up, but Australia perhaps
0:56.9	does not. Well, I'm joined today by Giles Wilkes, IFG Senior Fellow and a former advisor in number 10. Hi,
1:04.0	Giles. Hi, Ed Roman. Good to have you with us. And Sarah Nixon, our senior researcher, is back
1:09.5	with us from Australia. Hi, Sarah. Sorry to
1:12.0	keep you up so late. Not too late. It's not too late. It's by Blanche with Bronwyn. Great. And I'm delighted
1:18.3	to be joined today by Latika Burke, a London-based journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald and the
1:22.8	Age. Hi, Latika. Hi, Bronman. How long have you been in the UK and how have you found not being able to go home?
1:29.1	I've been here five years and ever since I moved, I've been home at least once, maybe twice or three times per year
1:35.4	because I still work for my publication and do a lot of coverage of Australian-based news as well as foreign news.
1:43.0	So it's been particularly challenging.
1:44.6	I tried to get home in 2019.
1:46.6	Of course, everybody understood, sorry, late 2020.
1:50.1	Of course, everyone understood when the pandemic hits
1:53.0	that Australia's early actions in closing its borders in and out were necessary.
1:58.9	And Australia's done a great job.
2:00.3	We're going to come on to that.
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