2024 in Review: The Start of the Keir Show

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

It has been quite some year for British politics. Sure, there were no mass-ministerial resignations, rule-breaking No10 gatherings or economy-shaking mini budgets, but July’s general election saw a change of ruling party for the first time in 14 years. So did Rishi Sunak’s final rolling of the dice really achieve anything? Could the general election ever have turned out differently? And how have Labour adapted to government – and Keir Starmer to the daurning job of prime minister? What was the surprise of the year? What was the moment of election night? And what does it all say about what might come next…? Sam Freedman, Giles Wilkes, Jill Rutter and Hannah White gather in the IfG studio to look back on extraordinary 12 months for politics and government. Produced by Robin Leaburn for Podmasters 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. I'm Hannah White.
0:18.3	Well, that was quite some year. We didn't have any mass ministerial
0:22.5	resignations or late-night Brexit votes, no rule-breaking number 10 gatherings, as far as we know,
0:28.0	or economy-shaking mini-budgets, but dialing down the drama of the last few years didn't stop
0:33.3	2024 being the most significant year for British politics in at least half a decade.
0:39.0	July's general election saw a change of ruling party for the first time in 14 years.
0:43.6	Rishi Sunak, the fifth Conservative Prime Minister since 2010, left number 10, as Keir Stalmer
0:49.0	led Labour to a huge win. Parliament now looks very different and government looks pretty
0:53.9	different too. But Labor's
0:55.7	first five months in office have seen Starma and his team facing the kind of problems that have dogged
1:00.1	successive administrations and to create a few new ones of their own. So what we're going to do on
1:06.5	this pod today is break the last 12 months, roughly speaking, into three parts. First, we're going to talk
1:12.3	about the final months of Rishi-Soonak's Conservative government, then we'll talk a bit about
1:16.9	the election itself, and then the first steps of the new Labour government. And who better to join me
1:23.8	to discuss this throughout the podcast today. We have three experienced government
1:29.1	watchers, thinkers and former insiders. We have an IFG senior fellow triumvirate, in fact. We have
1:36.3	Jill Rutter, Charles Wilkes and Sam Friedman. Hi, everyone. Hi, Hannah. Hello. Hello. So,
1:43.1	let's cast our minds back to January.
1:46.0	Rishi Sunak is Prime Minister and those in the know said a general election was sure to be
1:51.5	held in October, but instead Sunak had his mind fixed on July.
1:57.0	Or did he?
1:58.0	Sam, looking back, do you think there were clues in what Sunak was doing to suggest that
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