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Extra: What is the role of big suppliers in government procurement?
Season 1 Episode 1349
Procurement is central to the operation of modern government but, following a series of high-profile scandals, is often controversial. Much of the cr…
1 year ago
Trump’s Tariff Turnaround
Episode 1347
As Donald Trump pauses his trade war (well, except in the case of China) the podcast team are joined by economist and author Duncan Weldon to make se…
1 year ago
Trump Declares War: Tariff Liberation Day
Season 1 Episode 1346
The rules of global trade have been dramatically ripped up by Donald Trump. So what is the US president’s tariff plan actually meant to do? Has a glo…
1 year, 1 month ago
Will Trump rip up Reeves’s rebalanced books?
Season 1 Episode 1345
Spring has nearly sprung, but the fiscal forecasts made for a rather gloomy spring statement for Rachel Reeves. Stewart Wood, a Labour peer and forme…
1 year, 1 month ago
Will Rachel Reeves and Darren Jones’ sums add up?
Season 1 Episode 1344
With Rachel Reeves just days away from setting out her spring statement to parliament, chief secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones MP drops into the…
1 year, 1 month ago
Keir Starmer rewires the state: An interview with the prime minister
Season 1 Episode 1343
Minutes after setting out his plans for reforming the civil service, abolishing NHS England, and ending ministerial reliance on quangos, Keir Starmer…
1 year, 1 month ago
Will Ukraine be “Keir Starmer’s Falklands - or his Iraq”?
Season 1 Episode 1342
So much has happened since that explosive – and unsettling – White House press conference bust-up between Donald Trump and Vlodymer Zelensky, but doe…
1 year, 2 months ago
Starmer and Trump: special relationship or odd couple?
Season 1 Episode 341
Keir Starmer has completed his first visit to the White House – and delivered a letter from King Charles to Donald Trump. So just how special is the …
1 year, 2 months ago
What is the UK’s place in Trump’s world?
Season 1 Episode 340
With Donald Trump making a series of headline-making statements on Ukraine and its leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy, former national security adviser Peter…
1 year, 2 months ago
In conversation with John Healey MP, Secretary of State for Defence
Season 1 Episode 339
The Institute for Government was delighted to welcome Rt Hon John Healey MP, Secretary of State for Defence, to discuss his priorities for reforming …
1 year, 2 months ago