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Back to SearchThe secrets of being a government minister
Season 1 Episode 373
Being a minister is a job like no other. No briefing, no training and, sometimes, no warning – from day one a new minister could find themselves maki…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Government in summer: who feels the heat?
Season 1 Episode 372
What is it really like to govern in summer? Who is in charge when ministers leave Westminster? And what happens when, as it so often does, the summer…
9 months ago
The reshuffle revelations
Season 1 Episode 371
Kemi Badenoch has completed one. Keir Starmer is rumoured to be lining one up. Yes reshuffles, or rumours of ministerial reshuffles, are never far a…
9 months, 1 week ago
STARMER LAYS DOWN THE RULES
Season 1 Episode 370
Partygate, revolving doors, freebiegate and cash for questions... stories about misbehaviour in public life are never far away, and this week the gov…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
The scandal and the superinjunction
Season 1 Episode 369
The Afghan data leak – and the unprecedented superinjunction which followed – has dominated the week in Westminster. The FT’s Lucy Fisher – whose rep…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Starmer and Macron: Le Spécial Relationship?
Season 1 Episode 368
The Prime Minister has racked up the visits, tours and summits over the last year, but this week he turned host and invited President Macron for a st…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Ending in tears: Labour’s first year in government
Season 1 Episode 367
It is one year since the general election brought Labour back to government and since Keir Starmer walked into Number 10.
Instead of a smooth annive…
10 months ago
Starmer vs the Labour rebels
Season 1 Episode 366
The government’s controversial plans to cut the welfare budget have caused serious disquiet on the Labour benches. Luke Sullivan, former political di…
10 months, 1 week ago
What do the Nolan Principles mean today?
Season 1 Episode 364
To conclude the IfG’s conference on the Nolan Principles, our panel will discuss the impact of the Nolan Principles in public life today. How have th…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Iran-Israel conflict: Will Trump (and Starmer) go to war?
Season 1 Episode 363
With conflict in the Middle East is dominating the headlines, the New Statesman’s Rachel Cunliffe joins the podcast team to explore Keir Starmer’s at…
10 months, 2 weeks ago