Appointments of contention

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

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🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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What is the difference between a spad and pad? How should people be fast-tracked into big government jobs? And is Labour going about this process the right way – or committing a series of unforced errors? With the new government on the defensive after a string of eyebrow-raising appointments to civil service roles, ConservativeHome’s Henry Hill joins the podcast team to make sense of the row – and explore where Keir Starmer and Sue Gray might have questions to answer. Plus: Does Rachel Reeves have any money to spend? Presented by Hannah White with Alex Thomas and Jill Rutter. Produced by Milo Hynes www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk 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.
0:14.4	I'm Hannah White. So today, in the depths of the summer recess, we're going to be taking a look at how the new government is getting
0:21.1	itself set up. A row has blown up over a number of appointments that Labor has made to the civil
0:26.4	service and whether these breach rules around impartiality. Will we take a look at the questions
0:31.3	that have been raised and the principles that they engage? And then we'll move on to take a look at
0:35.9	some of the policy issues facing the new
0:37.9	government. The aftermath of the riots has been reverberating through communities and the courts,
0:43.1	and there's been some bad news for Rachel Reeves as she makes her plans for her October
0:47.1	budget. We'll look at some of the pressures and the questions that she'll be examining.
0:51.7	Joining me to discuss these issues today are my excellent colleagues
0:54.7	Alex Thomas and Jill Rutter. Hello, Hannah. Hi, Anna. Alex, joining us from probably the
1:00.7	furthest, I think we've ever had anyone dial into the podcast, the west coast of the United States.
1:05.7	How is it over there, Alex? Cannon Beach in Oregon, I am at the moment. We're doing a little
1:09.6	tour of the Pacific Northwest, which is fantastic fun. It was very wet over the last few days, but it's looking up and I've got a very nice view of what's called Haystack Rock. I've also, I'm sorry Henry for this in advance. I've given away who the guest is. I've been watching some of the Democratic National Convention of an evening, keeping up with the politics from over here as well.
1:31.1	I should say your view is probably better than that from the IFG podcast studio.
1:37.5	And you have revealed our guest for today, sometime return guest to the IFG podcast,
1:41.5	which is, of course, Deputy Editor of Conservative Home, Henry Hill.
1:42.3	Hello, Henry.
1:47.7	Hello, yes, scandalous disregard for propriety, which I suppose is on track for the subject of the discussion. But it's fine to be interested in American politics when you're in America.
1:51.9	If you go to the trouble of crossing the ocean, that's fine.
1:54.6	We'll bear that in mind. Okay, let's kick off with the question about the appointments
1:59.8	that the Labour government has been
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