Buckle up for 2023

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

4.6 • 252 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

After that chaotic year of three prime ministers, surely 2023 will be a little calmer? But while we’ve heard optimistic start-the-year speeches from Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer, the country has been driven to a standstill by strikes across public services, the NHS is in crisis, the cost-of-living crisis shows no sign of easing – and Boris Johnson is said to be plotting a comeback. Will Sunak’s five promises boost the Conservatives’ dire poll ratings? Can Keir Starmer’s vision for government convince voters that he should be given the keys to No10. The IfG team are joined by David Runciman, former presenter of the Talking Politics podcast, to look ahead to what the next 12 months might hold in the in UK. And how might events across the globe play into domestic politics? The war in Ukraine shows no sign of ending, while China is making increasingly threatening noises about Taiwan. Meanwhile temperatures rise and Covid cases – in China at least – continue to soar. Hannah White presents, with Alex Thomas and Gemma Tetlow Produced by Candice McKenzie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, Happy New Year and welcome back to Inside Weeping, the podcast from the Institute for Government.
0:15.3	I'm Hannah White. Well, I hope you all had a good Christmas break, because we all needed one after the last 12 months.
0:22.9	Historians will be talking about 2022 for years to come, I expect, but let's turn our attention to the year ahead.
0:28.7	You'd think it would be a little calmer. Let's hope at least we don't get through three prime ministers again.
0:33.6	But even in the first days of January, it's already clear we could be in for a rocky ride. The country has been brought to a standstill by strikes.
0:40.3	The NHS is under huge pressure, energy bills remain sky high.
0:44.3	And Boris Johnson is said to be plotting a comeback.
0:48.3	And that's just in the UK.
0:50.3	Russia and Ukraine are still locked in conflict.
0:52.3	China, while experiencing a huge surge of COVID cases,
0:55.5	is making increasingly aggressive noises about Taiwan. The US and Europe are experiencing,
1:00.9	in their different ways, record-busting winter temperatures, and the list goes on. So let's buckle
1:05.9	up and work out what's going on and what might happen next. Joining me today are two IFG colleagues who I predict
1:13.2	could be just as busy this year as they were last. And that's chief economist Gemmatello and
1:17.9	Alex Thomas who runs our civil service work programme. Hello both. Hello. Happy New Year.
1:23.4	Would you both manage to escape from politics over Christmas? I completely switched off, yes.
1:28.7	So it was very nice to our break.
1:30.2	Yeah, first time for a few years.
1:32.1	It was some incredibly quiet on the political side,
1:35.5	if not on the sort of NHS and strikes and sort of real world side of things.
1:40.2	Indeed.
1:41.0	And I'm absolutely delighted that we're joined again by author, academic, historian, journalist and podcaster David Ronson. Hi, David. Hi, how are you? It's the first Christmas in three years that I haven't had COVID, so I'm feeling I'm very bouncy. Good chipper.
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