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Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

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🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Is new-look, cautious Boris Johnson’s step-by-step plan for unlocking too timid, or is it over-optimistic? Are vaccine passports workable, let alone defensible from a civil rights perspective? And if Rishi Sunak will do “whatever it takes” to get the economy back on its feet, what can we expect from next week’s COVID Budget? Plus: just how many czars do we need? This week’s special guest is Ben Riley-Smith, the Daily Telegraph’s newly-appointed political editor, fresh from returning from Washington. “No.10 will be pretty pleased with the reaction to the unlocking plans so far. Polls say only a tiny proportion of people think he’s going too quickly.” – Ben Riley-Smith “The Government is keen to do this slowly to ensure that it’s irreversible.” – Ben Riley-Smith Presented by Bronwen Maddox with Tim Durrant, Gemma Tetlow and Tom Sasse. Audio production by Robin Leeburn See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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.
0:16.2	I'm Bronwynn Maddox.
0:17.8	So we have the lockdown exit roadmap which the Prime Minister has released. For a
0:22.3	document said to be led by data, not dates, there were rather a lot of dates in there. But will there be
0:27.5	dates to remember or ones the government is forced to change? We're going to talk about Boris Johnson's
0:32.5	plan to take the country towards what he calls as spring and summer of hope. We'll then look ahead to a big day for the Prime Minister's next-door neighbour,
0:40.3	where she soon acts out his budget next week.
0:43.3	Will the Chancellor once one of the loudest voices for the economy to be opened up,
0:48.3	be departing from Johnson's road map, or will the coordinates match up?
0:52.3	And from there we'll take a look at a particular type of government
0:54.7	role, one which has been proliferating in recent years. That's commissioners, lots of them,
1:00.8	and there's often lots more promised in manifestos. But there's no handbook for the role, no induction
1:05.6	process, no agreed document on what they're meant to do and how. Luckily, a new IFG report is filling the gap,
1:12.5	so we'll take a look at that. This week I'm joined by Tom Sass, IFG Associate Director and co-author
1:18.2	of our recent paper on how the Prime Minister could set out a roadmap. Hi, Tom. Hi,
1:22.8	Ronman. Great to have you with us. And Gemma Tetlow, our chief economist, is here again with us as well.
1:28.3	Hi, Gemma.
1:29.1	Hello.
1:30.4	And I'm delighted that we're joined as well by Ben Riley Smith, the newly appointed political editor of the Daily Telegraph and freshly back from a stint in Washington.
1:38.2	Ben, great to have you with us.
1:39.6	Thank you very much, Chapul.
1:41.1	Just as busy here as it was in D.C., I'm afraid. Well, that was quite a time
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