Why Does It Always Rayn On Keir?

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

4.6 • 252 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

When Angela Rayner stood up to set out her vision for restoring trust in public life, news broke that Keir Starmer had started to reshuffle his team. Was it a conspiracy, a cock-up, or something in-between? ELENI COUREA, political reporter at The Times who broke the reshuffle story, joins to discuss Labour’s internal politics, and the new-look Shadow Cabinet. And, the new strain of COVID is here. Will Omicron result in another cancelled Christmas, or will the measures brought in be enough to save the festive season? “Angela Rayner’s team were convinced Starmer wanted to overshadow her speech, but the leader’s office have denied this.” - ELENI COUREA “Many Labour MPs do have close links with Blair and Brown, so referring to the factions isn’t inaccurate.” - ELENI COUREA “The Government are suffering because they don’t have a clear decision making framework.” - ALEX THOMAS “The Conservative Party is united in not wanting to impose any domestic restrictions.” - ELENI COUREA “The common sense message has become lost because different people are saying different things.” - ALEX THOMAS Presented by Bronwen Maddox with Cath Haddon and Alex Thomas. Audio production by Alex Rees. Inside Briefing is a Podmasters Production for the IfG. https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to
0:11.8	the podcast from the Institute for Government.
0:15.0	I'm Bronwyn Maddox.
0:16.4	We hosted a big speech at the IFG on Monday morning.
0:19.1	Well advertised, lots of media filing into the building because we were doing it in real life.
0:23.8	And yet, when Labour deputy leader Angela Rainer stood up to set out her vision for restoring trust in public life,
0:30.6	news began to break that Labour leader, Kirstama, had just started his shadow cabinet reshuffle.
0:37.1	Was it a deliberate attempt to undermine his deputy?
0:39.6	Not caring about the impact of that?
0:42.0	We'll ask that, look at her proposals and run the rule over Labor's new team.
0:47.1	However much it tried to shape the news agenda this week,
0:49.5	the Labour Party could not compete against Omicron.
0:51.7	The new strain of coronavirus has landed,
0:53.8	and this week the government responded with some new rules,
0:56.5	but a promise that Christmas would not, for the second year running, be cancelled.
1:00.1	We're going to weigh up its response and ask what might happen next.
1:03.7	Joining me in the studio is a top IFG duo,
1:06.8	senior fellow, Catherine Haddon, and Alex Thomas, our program director for All Things Civil Service. Hi, both.
1:12.4	Hi, Bronwen. Hi, Bronwyn. Great to have you here. And I'm absolutely delighted that we're joined as well by Aleni Correa, the political reporter at the Times who first broke the story of the Labour reshuffle. And hats off to you, pretty much called all the job moves. Hi, Helene, what a week.
1:27.4	Hi, Brian. Thank you. Thanks for joining us from their commons right now.
1:32.4	All right, well, let's start with Angela Rainer and her speech on standards in public life.
1:37.0	Speech was written the top lines briefed out that had a daybreak and covered,
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