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Season 1 Episode 192
Another podcast, another prime minister. Liz Truss is out after just 50 days in No.10. Rishi Sunak is in, with the former Chancellor avoiding a showd…
3 years, 6 months ago
Broken Truss
Season 1 Episode 191
After a feverish week in Westminster and a chaotic 24 hours in government, Liz Truss has called time on her record-breakingly short stay in Number 10…
3 years, 6 months ago
Is the lady for u-turning?
Season 1 Episode 190
As pressure piles up on the prime minister, the IfG podcast team assemble - with guest Aubrey Allegretti of the Guardian - to work out what Liz Truss…
3 years, 6 months ago
"The nightmarish state of British politics"
Season 1 Episode 189
Academic, author and former Talking Politics host David Runciman joins the IfG podcast team to take stock of the state of British politics.
As wearing…
3 years, 7 months ago
Gilt trips & bank statements
Season 1 Episode 188
The fallout from Kwasi Kwarteng's budget continues, so what can the chancellor do to calm the nerves? Guest Soumaya Keynes of the Economist joins the…
3 years, 7 months ago
Europe's Energy Crisis
Season 1 Episode 187
With winter fast approaching, politicians across Europe have been taking dramatic steps to address the ongoing energy crisis. The IfG team are joined…
3 years, 7 months ago
Gloves off for Truss v Starmer
Season 1 Episode 186
Liz Truss has been to New York, Keir Starmer is on his way to Liverpool, and the IfG podcast team assemble in the studio to discuss a week where poli…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Queen, the King and the Constitution
Season 1 Episode 185
The FT’s Stephen Bush joins the IfG team in the podcast studio, just a few hundred metres away from Buckingham Palace, to make sense of an extraordin…
3 years, 7 months ago
In Liz we Truss?
Season 1 Episode 184
The epic Conservative Party leadership contest is finally over, and Liz Truss is the new prime minister. After a flight to Balmoral to meet the Queen…
3 years, 8 months ago
Truss triumph or Sunak surprise?
Season 1 Episode 183
The long, hot summer of endless Conservative leadership contest hustings is over, and next week the winner will be announced. The FT’s Seb Payne joi…
3 years, 8 months ago