Blasts from the past: Live at the IfG Conference 2023 with guest DAN SNOW

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

4.6 • 252 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In a special live edition we welcome guest Dan Snow, author, historian and host of the History Hit podcast, to take a very long view of power and politics. What lessons should Government learn from history? Can any year rival 2022 for Cabinet chaos and Prime Ministerial turnover? Which PMs were “broken” by the office? And who thought his party were “the shabbiest set of dirty politicians that was ever seen”? Chair Dr Hannah White, Director of the Institute for Government, closes out the IfG’s Government 2023 conference with this special podcast featuring Dan Snow, Chief Economist at the Institute for Government Gemma Tetlow, and Giles Wilkes, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government. Find all our podcasts on the IfG’s new-look website: https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/our-work/research-analysis/podcasts Presented by Hannah White with Gemma Tetlow and Giles Wilkes. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. Inside Briefing is a Podmasters Production for the IfG. 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 this first ever live recording of Inside Briefing, the IFG's weekly podcast.
0:28.1	I'm Hannah White, the IFG's director and podcast presenter.
0:31.7	If you're a regular listener, we're really delighted that you can be with us today.
0:35.2	If you're new to Inside Briefing, a very warm welcome, and we hope you'll immediately today. If you're new to inside briefing, a very warm
0:37.5	welcome, and we hope you'll immediately subscribe. If you're watching at home, we'll do our best
0:42.5	to bring our studio vibe to you wherever you're watching. And if you're listening back later in
0:47.1	the week, we hope you enjoy this special episode. So I'm here today with two brilliant IFG colleagues,
0:53.1	our chief economist, Gemma Tecklo. Hi Gemma.
0:56.0	Hello. And our senior fellow, Giles Wells. Hi, Giles. And I'm absolutely delighted that we are joined here today by Dan Snow, author, historian, TV presenter, and of course, presenter of the history hit podcast. Hi, Dan.
1:10.0	Hello, thank you for having me.
1:11.6	So because this is a slightly different type of podcast and because Dan is with us,
1:14.6	we're going to take a step back from the usual inside briefing format
1:18.6	and we're going to try to look at the extraordinary political times we've been living through to a historical lens.
1:24.6	But let's start with the here and now.
1:26.6	Well, every day seems to bring news of a new strike and another piece of the UK's public
1:31.4	services grinding to a halt.
1:34.4	Dan, are we reliving the 1970s all over again?
1:38.6	Well, I think this is the boring answer you'd expect from someone in the most history,
1:43.0	sort of.
1:44.0	There are similarities and there are differences.
1:46.0	On the one hand and the other.
1:48.0	In 1979, you get the first big common strike
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