Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchInternational Women’s Day Special
Season 1 Episode 212
To mark International Women’s Day, IfG director Hannah White is joined by Polly Curtis, director of Demos, and Charlotte Pickles, director of Reform,…
3 years, 2 months ago
Northern Ireland special: The Windsor change
Season 1 Episode 211
Will Sunak’s new deal with the EU solve the vexed issue of a customs border in the Irish Sea? Can the “Windsor Framework” finally bring the rancorous…
3 years, 2 months ago
Gray Goes Gracefully?
Season 1 Episode 210
With Sue Gray making headlines again, the IfG podcast team are joined by former Conservative MP Sir David Lidington to make sense of a big Whitehall …
3 years, 2 months ago
A year of war in Ukraine
Season 1 Episode 209
Russia invaded Ukraine one year ago. Peter Ricketts, the UK’s former national security adviser, joins the IfG podcast to reflect on how the war has c…
3 years, 2 months ago
A Holyrood Ending
Season 1 Episode 208
Who had “Nicola Sturgeon quits” on their 2023 bingo card? Not us. We look at the pressures behind the First Minister’s resignation and what her depar…
3 years, 2 months ago
Impermanent Secretaries: The Cabinet Reshuffle
Season 1 Episode 207
Reshuffles usually mean new faces in cabinet, not whole new departments. Can we tell our DSIT from our DESNZ? Was the PM right to act before the Raab…
3 years, 2 months ago
100 days of Sunak
Season 1 Episode 206
The Spectator’s Isabel Hardman joins the IfG podcast team to weigh up Rishi Sunak’s first 100 days as prime minister. What has he achieved? What is h…
3 years, 3 months ago
Sunak’s slipping standards?
Season 1 Episode 205
Rishi Sunak promised to lead a government of integrity, but how big a problem will Nadhim Zahawi’s tax affairs and Boris Johnson’s loan arrangements …
3 years, 3 months ago
Blasts from the past: Live at the IfG Conference 2023 with guest DAN SNOW
Season 1 Episode 204
In a special live edition we welcome guest Dan Snow, author, historian and host of the History Hit podcast, to take a very long view of power and pol…
3 years, 3 months ago
Payday Groans
Season 1 Episode 203
How much money are MPs making on top of their day jobs? Who is topping up their earnings? And how much should they be paid? The IfG podcast team are …
3 years, 3 months ago