100 days of Sunak

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

4.6 • 252 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

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 his style of leadership? And what problems are coming down the track? In a week which saw the largest civil service strike in years, the IfG published its annual Whitehall stocktake – so what does it tell us about morale, turnover, pay and much, much more? And what is it really like to be a minister? What does it take to succeed? And why do so many ministerial careers end in failure? A new batch of the IfG’s Ministers Reflect interviews reveal the secrets of life on the inside. Hannah White presents. With Emma Norris, Rhys Clyne and Maddy Bishop Produced by Candice McKenzie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Inside Briefing, the podcast from the Institute for Government.
0:14.1	I'm Hannah White. So, Rishi Sunak has lasted 100 days as Prime Minister.
0:20.1	Quite a long way off, the 7,500 or so clocked up by Robert
0:23.6	Walpole back in the 18th century, but still a notable achievement compared to his predecessor.
0:28.0	So what has he achieved in that time? What had we learned about Sunak's style of leadership
0:32.5	and how all this shape the challenges he faces ahead? We're going to take a look.
0:36.8	Industrial action is continuing to make life difficult for the PM, and this week it was the turn you faces ahead. We're going to take a look. Industrial action is continuing
0:38.2	to make life difficult for the PM, and this week it was the turn of civil servants to strike,
0:42.9	more than 100,000 of them. Happily, this was also the week that we at the IFG published our
0:48.2	annual civil service stock take, Whitehall Monitor, which has everything you need to know about
0:53.0	the civil services size, scale, morale, pay levels and much more.
0:57.5	A fascinating look at a particularly turbulent 12 months.
1:01.0	We're going to be talking to its lead author.
1:03.8	And then we'll end by looking at what we can learn from the latest batch of Institute for Government interviews with former ministers.
1:09.8	We've got some very good ones out this week.
1:12.4	Joining me throughout today, Emma Norris. Hello, Emma. Hi, Hannah. And our senior researcher,
1:18.1	Reese Klein, lead author and mastermind behind the Whitehall Monitor Report. Hi, Reese. Hello. And I'm
1:23.2	absolutely delighted that we're joined today by Isabel Hardman, the Spectator's Assistant Editor,
1:27.9	author, Week in Westminster presenter, TV pundit and much more.
1:31.4	Hello, Isabel.
1:32.3	Hello.
1:33.2	How are you doing?
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