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Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government — 431 episodes
Is Ed Miliband rethinking UK foreign policy?
Burnham down the House - the new PM's Parliamentary debut
Totally Rewired - Can Burnham really do government differently?
Mid-term prime ministers – Episode 3: Adjusting to the role
Mid-term prime ministers – Episode 2: The Transition
Mid-term prime ministers – Episode 1: Preparing for change
Andy Burnham: How is the new prime minister changing the direction of government?
He wants to be adored – Burnham’s people-pleasing policy debut
Full Time for Starmer: Can Burnham Find a Way to Win?
Burnham, Binface and Starmer's final flight
Northern Soul: Burnham's Manchester No10 plan
Brexit at 10: A decade of drama, deals and disruption
What does Andy Burnham really stand for?
Burnham v Starmer: The King of the North heads South
The way you Makerfield
Protests, politics and the killing of Henry Nowak
The Blair Necessities
May 2026 elections: what are the implications for local government reorganisation?
Burnham Issues
Starmer, Streeting and the fight for No10
Elections 2026: Fragmentation nation
Is Keir Starmer in the last chance saloon?
Starmer vs Robbins: Why the Mandelson row keeps getting worse
The Peter Mandelson scandal: What are the lessons for Keir Starmer's government?
Is the UK (and Keir Starmer) under attack?
Who will pay the prices of war?
Money talks: Influence and interference
Can Rachel Reeves protect both households and the public finances from the energy price shock?
Can the UK weather the Middle East storm?
Keir Starmer and the cost of security
International Women's Day special: The inside story of life as an MP
Trump vs Iran: Is the UK ready for war?
Will Rachel Reeves spring a forecast surprise?
All roads lead to Romeo
Resets and resignations: Starmer's worst week yet
Keir Starmer's Mandelson Scandal
Growth strategy pains, trains and regional deals
Starmer’s Trump diplomacy and Darren Jones’s fast fixes
Wes Streeting’s government health-check
Donald Trumps Starmer’s New Year Plans
2025 in Review: Starmer's Year of Drama
The Trump challenge: Chaos, confusion and government communications
Four mayors delayed, three ministers reflect, and a House of Lords battle renewed
Should the U.K. do budgets differently?
Autumn budget 2025: What is Rachel Reeves’ plan for the economy?
In conversation with John Swinney MSP, First Minister of Scotland
John Swinney’s goals for Scotland
Keir Starmer’s government: Traitors or Faithfuls?
Rachel Reeves and the art of pitch rolling the Budget
Home Office truths with Shabana Mahmood
The Prisons Crisis Strikes Back
Tinker, Tailor, Starmer, Spies
Lessons in Kemistry
Gloves off: Starmer v Reform
Starmer’s Liverpool Drama
Trump’s State Visit: The Sequel
The Mandelson misjudgement
Stand and deliver?
What really happens at the party conferences…
Getting It Right When Things Go Wrong: Ministerial Leadership During Crises
The secrets of being a government minister
Government in summer: who feels the heat?
The reshuffle revelations
STARMER LAYS DOWN THE RULES
The scandal and the superinjunction
Starmer and Macron: Le Spécial Relationship?
Ending in tears: Labour’s first year in government
Starmer vs the Labour rebels
What do the Nolan Principles mean today?
Iran-Israel conflict: Will Trump (and Starmer) go to war?
The morning after the Spending Review before
What choices did the government make in the 2025 spending review?
In conversation with Jeremy Hunt MP: Britain's place in the world
Keir Starmer gets ready for war
How will Starmer rate his ministers
THE ART OF THE BREXIT DEAL
Starmer and the strangers
The Trump-Starmer trade deal: What’s the beef?
Local elections: Ready for Reform?
Are Starmer and Badenoch making plans for Nigel?
Extra: What is the role of big suppliers in government procurement?
Trump’s Tariff Turnaround
Trump Declares War: Tariff Liberation Day
Will Trump rip up Reeves’s rebalanced books?
Will Rachel Reeves and Darren Jones’ sums add up?
Keir Starmer rewires the state: An interview with the prime minister
Will Ukraine be “Keir Starmer’s Falklands - or his Iraq”?
Starmer and Trump: special relationship or odd couple?
What is the UK’s place in Trump’s world?
In conversation with John Healey MP, Secretary of State for Defence
Starmer’s border crackdown, Trump’s Ukraine sellout
EKeir Starmer: Leader or HR Manager?
Does Rachel Reeves have a runway to growth?
The Southport attacks: Has terrorism changed?
Government 2025 at The IfG: Darren Jones Keynote Speech
Rachel Reeves takes a gilt trip
Happy New Year, Keir?
2024 in Review: The Start of the Keir Show
Christmas Special: IfG Book Club
Power to the people
Appetite for Disruption
The Plans they are A-Changing
The new cabinet secretary: Can Sir Chris Wormald rewire the British state?
Cabi-not yet Secretary
Starmer’s Farmer Drama
Donald Trump's Team Calls
In Conversation with Michael Gove
Is the world ready for Donald Trump?
Rachel Reeves' Halloween budget: trick or treat?
What did Rachel Reeves’ budget reveal about the government’s priorities?
Donald Trump and the politics of interfere
Saturday Night's Alright for Investing
Gray goes out of fashion
After Sue Gray: How can Keir Starmer reset No.10?
Why was the Conservative Party Conference so upbeat?
Live from the Labour Party Conference!
KEIR AND PRESENT DANGER
Extra: What can be done to improve government procurement?
Winter Fuel of Discontent
Decades of failure by central government
Starmer looks back in anger
Appointments of contention
Does Sam Freedman have a plan to fix the failed state?
The politics of the Olympic Games
SpAdcast: What is it really like to be a special adviser? – Ep.4: Moving On
The Chancellor’s statement of intent
SpAdcast: What is it really like to be a special adviser? – Ep3: Beyond the department
The Trump vs Harris Showdown
SpAdcast: What is it really like to be a special adviser? – Ep2: Relationships
Britain with the brakes off, America at the abyss
SpAdcast: What is it really like to be a special adviser? – Ep1: Into government
Keir and Prison Danger
LIVE: The day after the 2024 general election
Sunak’s election gamble: will Starmer hit the jackpot?
Election 2024: Poll positions
Election 2024: This Charming Manifesto?
Question Time Special: What does the election mean for civil servants?
Sunak vs. Starmer: Tax Attacks
Rishi Sunak’s Titanic challenge
Extra: General Election question time special
Rishi Sunak’s General Election gamble
Starmer steps on Sunak’s toes
Dover and done with
Local Elections 2024: Swings and roundabouts
The rules of Rishi’s flight club
Trust in government up in smoke?
Foreign Office Politics
Rishi Sunak and the Attack of the Cybermen
The Prime Minister’s plot twists
Preparing for Power: Ep 6 – Into Government
What’s wrong with the centre of government – and how can we fix it?
The general election budget?
Preparing for Power: Ep 5 – Making Manifestos
What do we really know about Keir Starmer?
Preparing for Power: Ep 4 – The governing party
The Hoyle Crisis
Preparing for Power: Ep 3 – The Opposition
Rishi Sunak’s double by-election trouble
Preparing for Power – Ep.2: The Civil Service
Sunak gambles as Starmer u-turns
Preparing for Power – Ep.1: Access Talks
The Gathering Stormont
Has Sunak lost the plot?
Rishi vs. The Rebels
The Post Office scandal: Trouble on the horizon
2024 Preview Special: Let election battles commence
Christmas Special: The IfG Fantasy Cabinet
The IfG Review of 2023: Posturing and panicking, poison and paranoia
Rishi Sunak’s unhappy Five Families
Was this Rishi Sunak's worst week yet?
Sunak’s Captain Marble act falls flat
Autumn Statement of Intent?
Sunak's flights of fantasy?
LIGHTS! CAMERON! RESHUFFLE ACTION!
The Suella/Sunak Stand-Off
Boris Johnson's orgy of narcissism
Inside Briefing Extra: Where next for English devolution?
250th EPISODE: Many unhappy returns? Rishi Sunak one year in
Rishi Sunak's double trouble
Mystery date: when is the right time to call a general election?
Keir Starmer’s Mersey Mission
The Start of the Keir Show
Rishi Sunak's Conference Call
Rishi Sunak's Seven Deadly Bins
Plane speaking with the PM
Concrete Evidence
Special: Becoming A Minister Part 6 - Parliament
The Rishi Reshuffle
Special: Becoming A Minister Part 5 - Managing budgets and working with the Treasury
Special: Becoming A Minister Part 4 – Working with Number 10
Special: Becoming A Minister Part 3 – Working with the civil service
Special: Becoming A Minister Part 2 – The day-to-day reality
Special: Becoming A Minister Part 1 – The first day
The Recess Digest
Special: Sunak’s ethics plan
Uxbridge Over Troubled Water?
Good chaps and bad apples
Searching For Evidence
Rishi Sunak and the drip-drip of bad news
Rishi Sunak counts the costs
Boris Johnson: The Party’s Over
Ex-Prime Ministers' Question Time
WhatsApp with the Covid Inquiry?
Drivetime with Suella Braverman
Why Doesn't Westminster Work?
Sunak's Scorecard and Minority Reports
ESunak's Little Local Difficulties and Starmer's Big Local Victories
Scapegoats or snowflakes?
Extra: The Treasury and the Covid crisis
Non-Dom Status
Striking images: What caused the NHS crisis and can it be fixed?
Dover Queues and Brexit Truths?
EXTRA - The Belfast/Good Friday Agreement: 25 years on
Someone Like Yousaf
EXTRA - The Emily Maitlis interview
EXTRA - Iraq War 20th Anniversary: The Robin Butler Interview
Boris Johnson's Partygate Hangover Returns
The Morning After The Budget Before
Will the government’s “stop the boats” plan work?
Stop boats, get votes?
International Women’s Day Special
Northern Ireland special: The Windsor change
Gray Goes Gracefully?
A year of war in Ukraine
A Holyrood Ending
Impermanent Secretaries: The Cabinet Reshuffle
100 days of Sunak
Sunak’s slipping standards?
Blasts from the past: Live at the IfG Conference 2023 with guest DAN SNOW
Payday Groans
Buckle up for 2023
Constitutions under pressure: Lessons for the UK
The IfG Review of 2022 – The year of living dangerously
The Winter Of Discontent 2.0
Peer Pressure
Selection headaches & tactical dilemmas
Rishi Sunak’s Growing Pains
Autumn Statement of intent
Gavin Williamson shuts up and goes away
Rumble in the Westminster Jungle
Ready for Rishi?
Broken Truss
Is the lady for u-turning?
"The nightmarish state of British politics"
Gilt trips & bank statements
Europe's Energy Crisis
Gloves off for Truss v Starmer
The Queen, the King and the Constitution
In Liz we Truss?
Truss triumph or Sunak surprise?
WHAT IS THE POINT OF PARTY CONFERENCES?
THE SECRET MAP OF WHITEHALL
THE LIFECYCLE OF A MINISTER
NUMBER 10 AFTER JOHNSON
Changing of the guard
The Sunak v Truss showdown
A Penny for Their Thoughts?
Boris Johnson: Exit Means Exit?
Around the World in 8 days
Double Trouble
The Only Way is Ethics
1922 and all that: Johnson’s crisis of confidence
VONC Special: Boris On The Brink?
Beyond the Beehive: lessons on government reform from New Zealand
Gray Matters
Belfast and the furious
Boris and the Giant Queen’s Speech
Election selection rejection
A little local difficulty?
Partygate in the House
Paying the penalty?
Information, Misinformation, Disinformation
Another fine mess for No10?
Is Rishi fuelling discontent?
Spring Statement Special Edition
Russia's Money Talks
Pouring Oil on Troubled Waters
THE UKRAINE CRISIS HITS HOME
How can Putin’s Ukraine war end?
Putin’s War - Can Sanctions Work?
Playing Chicken With Kyiv
Director’s Annual Lecture 2022
Send In The Not Complete Clowns
Sir John Major: In Democracy We Trust?
It’s a Shame About Gray
Ukraine on the Brink
Dog Fights and Defections
24 Hour Work Event People
It takes Inflation of Billions to Hold us back
2021: Groundhog Year
Peppa Pig Strikes Back: What fiction and fantasy can teach us about government, Part 2
One Hell of a Kicking for Boris Johnson
Ain’t no Party like a Number 10 Party
Why Does It Always Rayn On Keir?
“Is everything OK, Prime Minister?”
Sleaze into Another Week
“Not Remotely A Corrupt Country”
A Massive Owen Goal
Budget post-mortem: A new age of optimism?
Budget Review: Have Your Twix and Eat It
Budget Preview: Rishi Business
The David Amess murder: Will politics change?
Brexit: An Early Frost
The Boris in the Bubble
Right Keir, Right Now?
Levelling Up Means Levelling Up
Reshuffle Kerfuffle
The Taxman Cometh
Afghanistan: From Great Game to Blame Game
Special: Summer governing, happened so fast
Afghanistan: Rage of the Commons
The Afterlife Of Prime Ministers
Magic Johnsonism?
Boris’s End Of Term Report
Where The Wild Pings Are
Levelling Up or Spreading the Jam?
COVID: They think it’s all over
Hancock: Tryst Issues
A Deal Down Under
G7: There's Summit About Boris
EXTRA: Future Covid-19 scenarios: how can the world meet long-term threats?
The PM: Why ‘unfitness for office’ doesn't matter
Domolition Derby
Travel: Are You An Amber Gambler?
The Third Way… by Boris Johnson?
Elections ’21: Sheer Hartlepool Attack
Soft Furnishings, Hard Questions
Accessing your Flexible Friends
The Lobbying Scandal: ACOBA on the ropes
Who Judges The Judges?
Disintegration Nation
Scandal In The Wind
COVID: The Year of Indecision
Warheads Revisited – Inside the Integrated Defence Review
The Only Way Is Sussex
Budget 2021: Party like it’s 1969?
Budget: The Four Hundred Billion Pound Man
Budget 2021: To recovery and beyond?
EXTRA: Tony Blair on Coronavirus one year on
Blind Dates
Lifting lockdown 2021
Sundown for Lockdown?
What next for the NHS?
Welcome To The Hotel Quarantina
Border Farce
COVID: Why won’t the Government learn?
Director’s Annual Lecture 2021
No.10’s Command and Control Problem – plus Biden and Britain
Backlogs and Burnout: Will the NHS buckle?
America’s Day of Chaos
IFG LIVE SPECIAL The Brexit deal: An IfG briefing
Outsourcing the Death Star: What fiction and fantasy can teach us about government
The Year The World Stood Still: 2020 In Review
So Here It Is, Mini Christmas
BONUS: What does a Biden presidency mean for the UK?
Groundhog Deal
Roll Out To Help Out
INSIDE BRIEFING EXTRA: When Brexit and Covid collide
Do They Know It’s Rishmas Time?
No Such Thing As A Free Relaunch
A Hard Cain’s Gonna Fall
BIDEN HIS TIME: Inside Briefing Extra
Advice to government in the coronavirus crisis
Fate Of The Union
Is Britain’s Circuit Breaking?
All Disquiet On The Northern Front
Driven To Tiers
EXTRA: Brexit – Deal or No Deal?
And The Wind Cries ‘Boris’
We All Live In A Trade Talks Submarine
Freeze A Jolly Good Furlough
Test Botch Special
Specific and Limited Chaos
Simon’s on the Case
Return to Brexit Island
Slave To The ’Rithm – Exams crisis fallout
Marksism Today: The A Levels Fiasco
Northern Uproar and Overloading the Lords
The Pain In Spain
Civil Service: Is a Hard Rain really gonna fall?
Huawei, Lewis And The News
Rishi’s Groupon Gamble
SIR BERNARD JENKIN on the Civil Service’s turbulent week
A Good Year For The Roosevelts
Resign o’the Times: Mark Sedwill departs
Let’s Go Outside?
U-Turn When You Don’t Want To
COVID: You do the Aftermath
BONUS: Mark Landler of the NYT extended interview
Do the Demoggcracy Conga
Should Have Gone To SPAD-Savers
BONUS: The roots of America's COVID chaos with Dan Balz of the Washington Post
Back To Life, Back To Reality?
On Her Majesty’s Beleagured Service
For Those About To Unlock
“R” Wars against the Phantom Menace
Remote control: JACOB REES-MOGG on the Commons under COVID
Coming to the COVID Crunch
The Impossible Choice
Second in Command?
Designated survivors: Who’s in charge?
Sunset Clause is coming to town: Inside the Corona Bill
Coronanomics – “An enormous moral decision”
How to handle a national emergency – a special podcast
IfG INTERVIEWS: Julia Gillard, former Australian PM, on women in politics
Let’s get fiscal: Can Sunak bury Corona in cash?
IfG INTERVIEWS: David Gauke, former Treasury Secretary and one-man “Gaukward Squad”
A matter of life and debt
EXTRA: Rutnam vs Patel lays Civil Service/Govt turmoil bare
Breaking Spad: is something rotten in the state of Johnson?
“The Department of No”: Inside the Number Ten-Treasury rivalry
Reading the runes of Reshuffle Day with Gavin Barwell
BONUS: Gina Miller – “Parliamentary sovereignty is much more important than Brexit”
Getting Away With It? How to scrutinise an all-powerful Government
BONUS: Gisela Stuart – “I didn’t realise how deep the grievance of Remain voters was.”
Home and Huawei: Will Boris pass his first post-Brexit test?
What works in Whitehall – and what doesn’t?
The Leverage Report
BONUS: Jonathan Powell – “What I discovered in No.10 is how LITTLE power you have”
Revolution Number Ten
Get with the programme? Johnson’s new era of government
Holyrood vs. Westminster: A Scottish Independence Special Edition
Johnson unbound? Election results special
Election: The Final Countdown
Inside the Manifestos
A Guide to the Constitutional Galaxy
Getting Stuff Done: Why it’s always harder than you think
A firehose of public spending?
Parliament’s wake-up call for Government, the future of tax and David Lidington MP
Inside the Election stalemate – plus leading Brexiter Graham Brady MP
Inside the Brexit endgame – plus Hilary Benn MP