Britain with the brakes off, America at the abyss

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

4.6 • 252 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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The pace of British politics isn’t slowing down. A big international summit for Keir Starmer. Devastating Covid inquiry headlines. And a King’s Speech full of bills. But all this is nothing compared to the US. President Biden – now isolating with Covid – is under pressure to withdraw from the 2024 race, and his rival Donald Trump survived, by millimetres, an assassination attempt. The FT’s Lucy Fisher hot-foots it from Blenheim Palace to join the podcast team to make sense of big events either side of the Atlantic. Presented by Hannah White, with Alex Thomas and Rosa Hodgkin 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.
0:14.0	I'm Hannah White. Well, we might get to a quiet week in politics at some point soon, but not this week.
0:20.6	International summits, a first report from a
0:23.3	huge inquiry, a Pact King speech, and that's just here in the UK. In the US, they've taken
0:28.4	things to another level, with President Biden, now isolating with COVID, under pressure to
0:34.5	withdraw from the 2024 race, and his rival Donald Trump surviving by
0:38.4	millimeters an assassination attempt. So rather a lot to discuss. Luckily, I have a really
0:44.3	brilliant duo alongside me to do so. Joining me throughout are the IFG's program director Alex Thomas.
0:50.9	Hi Alex. Hi, Anna. And I'm delighted to be joined again by the FG's Lucy Fisher.
0:55.8	Hi, Lucy. Hi, Hannah. The most important thing we need to know is, did you get back from the EPC
1:00.8	in time last night to go to that big gig in Alexandra Palace? You're right. This was the most
1:05.7	important moment of the week for me, racing back with my colleague George Parker, Pollard at the FTT.
1:12.4	George very much, I respect for putting his foot on the gas within legal limits.
1:16.4	We missed the Manic Street preachers, but we did get to Ali Pally in time for Swade.
1:20.7	And I saw in the distance, but among a huge crowd that I was not able to battle my way through,
1:25.9	the IFG's excellent Sam McCrory as well. So
1:28.5	that's there. He was there. Excellent. Excellent. Well, we must leave the music scene because
1:36.2	there's a lot of domestic politics to get into. But first, I want to start with the increasingly
1:40.6	extraordinary events in the US. Lucy, I know your beat is Whitehall,
1:45.1	but it must be pretty hard to tear your eyes away from what's going on in the presidential
1:48.9	race right now. It seems as though it's false becoming Donald Trump's to lose.
1:54.5	It certainly feels that way, doesn't it? And, you know, this week, a lot of the oxygen among
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