Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBoris Johnson: The Party’s Over
Season 1 Episode 232
The Privileges Committee has delivered its verdict on Boris Johnson, with the former PM lashing out after the committee found he had lied to Parliame…
2 years, 10 months ago
Ex-Prime Ministers' Question Time
Season 1 Episode 231
As the Covid inquiry gets underway, the Financial Times’ Chris Cook joins the IfG podcast to examine whether public inquiries can actually make any d…
2 years, 11 months ago
WhatsApp with the Covid Inquiry?
Season 1 Episode 230
Westminster watchers are used to the long tails of public inquiries. Baroness Hallett’s investigation of the pandemic will be no different, with hers…
2 years, 11 months ago
Drivetime with Suella Braverman
Season 1 Episode 229
It has been quite some week for the home secretary. From a row over her handling of a speeding ticket to a row over the latest release of net migrati…
2 years, 11 months ago
Why Doesn't Westminster Work?
Season 1 Episode 228
How does our system of government work? Why does it sometimes fail? And what can be done to fix it?
Join the IfG podcast team – and political commenta…
2 years, 11 months ago
Sunak's Scorecard and Minority Reports
Season 1 Episode 227
Does Rishi Sunak have a strategy for restoring the Conservatives' electoral prospects after the bruising local elections? Tim Bale, author of The Con…
2 years, 11 months ago
Sunak's Little Local Difficulties and Starmer's Big Local Victories
Season 1 Episode 226
Big wins for Labour. Big losses for the Conservatives. But just how much should we read into this week’s local election results? The Guardian’s Rafae…
2 years, 11 months ago
Scapegoats or snowflakes?
Season 1 Episode 225
Dominic Raab’s exit from government hasn’t drawn a line under the simmering tensions between ministers and civil servants. So have expectations of be…
3 years ago
Extra: The Treasury and the Covid crisis
Season 1 Episode 224
Do you remember being told to stay at home? Or becoming very familiar with the word “furlough”? How about all those assurances that the Government wa…
3 years ago
Non-Dom Status
Season 1 Episode 223
Dominic Raab has resigned. The report into whether or not he bullied civil servants finally landed on the prime minister’s desk – so what should we m…
3 years ago