Hello and welcome to Inside Briefing, the podcast from the Institute for Government. I'm Hannah White.

So Easter's been and gone and Parliament has now returned so far so familiar. The Conservative Party is still talking about reform.

Rachel Reeves is still looking nervously at the economic data and Donald Trump is making

increasingly hard to follow statements about tariffs. So let's take stock of the polls,

weigh up the Chancellor's options and explore the latest moves in Kirstama's Diplomatic Juggling Act.

And then we'll dig a little deeper into a subject that really does decide elections,

and that's public satisfaction with the NHS. A new IFG paper has revealed some important information

about what people think about their GPs, all that to come.

Joining me throughout is IFG Senior Fellow, Jill Rutter.

Hi, Jill.

You're at home waiting for an important delivery you are telling us.

Yes, I'm hopefully a beneficiary of the now incredibly efficient passport service.

They tried to deliver my new passport yesterday.

I'm at home because they claim they'll deliver it on the next working day,

but so I have to dash off, that's why. And I'm delighted to be joined again by Luke Trill,

executive director of More Incommon UK. Hi, Luke. Did you manage to switch off over Easter?

A little bit, although Easter being so close to the local elections is a bit of a recipe for disaster

for people involved in polling and focus grouping. But I did manage to make a couple of nice

Easter lunches for guests and use a bit of a different part of my brain. Sounds good. Okay, well,

let's begin with a polling checkup. Luke, more in common

has been publishing some fascinating data and I guess looking at it for Labor, it's a bit

worrying, isn't it? Because reform are topping the polls? Yes, they are. Basically, since

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