Trust in government up in smoke?

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

4.6 • 252 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Liz Truss is back, with her new book providing journalists with all sorts of extraordinary insights into her retrospective arguments about why her premiership collapsed. But what legacy has Truss left the Conservatives in the polls and what does this tell us about how voters view the party? Polling expert Will Jennings joins the podcast team to take a deep dive into the current state of the polls, how polling works and what the forthcoming election might mean for trust in our politics. Plus: The prime minister’s flagship smoking ban has passed its first parliamentary hurdle, but also exposed some fundamental philosophical divisions within the Conservative Party. What does the bill tell us about political debate and long-term policy making? And what can we take from it about how willing political parties are to use prevention to tackle public health challenges? 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. I'm Hannah White.
0:15.5	Parliament is back. A lot of old problems are rearing their heads and some new ones are emerging,
0:20.6	not least
0:21.1	the escalating tensions between Israel and Iran.
0:24.4	The safety of Rwanda bill is back, and the final battle between the Lords and the Commons
0:28.0	has been playing out this week.
0:29.8	Meanwhile, the Prime Minister's flagship smoking ban bill has exposed some fundamental
0:33.9	philosophical divisions within the Conservative Party.
0:36.6	We'll explore what the bill tells us about
0:38.4	political debate, long-term policymaking, and the legacy Sunak wants to leave behind. And you may have
0:44.6	not failed to notice that Liz Truss is back with her new book about her short time in office
0:50.1	providing journalists with all sorts of extraordinary insights into her thinking at the time,
0:54.4	and her retrospective arguments about why things went wrong.
0:57.6	What legacy has trust left the Conservative Party in the polls,
1:00.4	and what does this tell us about how voters view the Conservative Party?
1:03.4	We'll take a look at the polling industry and what the forthcoming election might mean for trust in our politics.
1:08.6	Joining me throughout are Kath Haddon,
1:10.3	RFG Watcher of many elections and premiershipships and IFG researcher Sophie Metcalfe.
1:14.3	Hello both.
1:15.1	Hello, Hannah.
1:15.9	Hello, Hannah.
1:16.6	And I'm delighted that we're also joined today by Will Jennings,
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