INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government
Hosted by Hannah White and Alex Thomas and Cath Haddon and Catherine Haddon and Giles Wilkes · Institute for Government
4.8from 134 ratings
- 439
- Episodes
- 173
- Transcribed
- 134
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
- 2M
- YouTube views
About INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government
The first Labour government in 14 years is facing a daunting to-do list and complex challenges at every turn. Public services are under strain. The civil service is under pressure. And ministers must deliver the government’s missions and milestones. But could Keir Starmer’s plan to “rewire the British state” – through using AI and creating a “start-up” culture – turn these challenges into opportunities? So where is government working well and what is it doing badly? What can be done to make No10, the Treasury and the rest of government function more effectively? What can Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves do to achieve faster economic growth? What will Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives and the other opposition parties do to hold the government to account? How might Donald Trump shape British politics – and how could the UK’s relations with the EU change in the years ahead? Get behind the scenes in Westminster, Whitehall and beyond on the weekly podcast from Britain’s leading governmental think tank, where we analyse the latest events in politics and explain what they mean. Every week on Inside Briefing, IfG director Hannah White and the team welcomes special guests for a thought-provoking conversation on what makes government work – and how to fix it when it doesn’t.
- Publisher
- Institute for Government
- Category
- government · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 18 Oct 2019
- Latest episode
- 5 Nov 2026
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[…] Do you think we should still look back to either of those as lessons for how UK government or should we start to look at actually the local experience or internationally and other kinds of power sharing where it is much more common to see different kinds of arrangements than it is at UK government level? […]
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- Ben Judah
- Nick Garland
- Tom Pope
- Hannah Keenan
- Dan Haile
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- 1,696,446
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 11 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 123 ratings
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- 82
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- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 99
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Hannah White and Alex Thomas and Cath Haddon and Catherine Haddon and Giles Wilkes host the show. Published by Institute for Government.
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