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Special: Becoming A Minister Part 3 – Working with the civil service
Season 2 Episode 3
There is no job quite like that of a government minister – and no training manual for how to do it. So what happens on the first day in the job? How …
2 years, 8 months ago
Special: Becoming A Minister Part 2 – The day-to-day reality
Season 2 Episode 2
There is no job quite like that of a government minister – and no training manual for how to do it. So what happens on the first day in the job? How …
2 years, 8 months ago
Special: Becoming A Minister Part 1 – The first day
Season 2 Episode 1
There is no job quite like that of a government minister – and no training manual for how to do it. So what happens on the first day in the job? How …
2 years, 9 months ago
The Recess Digest
Season 1 Episode 239
Some MPs are rarely seen in the Commons. Others can’t seem to stay away from the chamber. So what happens in those 45 days when the Palace of Westmin…
2 years, 9 months ago
Special: Sunak’s ethics plan
Season 1 Episode 238
After two years of ethical scandals, the government finally published its plans to clean up standards just before parliament went into recess. We’ll …
2 years, 9 months ago
Uxbridge Over Troubled Water?
Season 1 Episode 237
By-elections are rarely like buses, but this time three have arrived at once. The Conservatives lost Somerset and Frome and Selby, but held on to Bor…
2 years, 9 months ago
Good chaps and bad apples
Season 1 Episode 236
Rishi Sunak pledged to lead a government of integrity after the high-profile scandals of the Boris Johnson era, but Angela Rayner says only a Labour …
2 years, 9 months ago
Searching For Evidence
Season 1 Episode 235
It's Evidence Week in the House of Commons and on Inside Briefing, we’re interrogating just how effective Parliament actually is at scrutinising and …
2 years, 10 months ago
Rishi Sunak and the drip-drip of bad news
Season 1 Episode 234
Thames Water struggles to stay afloat. But who is to blame, will the taps dry up, and what solutions are there? ConservativeHome’s Henry Hill joins t…
2 years, 10 months ago
Rishi Sunak counts the costs
Season 1 Episode 233
The prime minister has been trying to fend off a barrage of bad economic news - but what can he actually do about stubbornly high inflation, rising i…
2 years, 10 months ago