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

Another week, another set of complicated headlines for Kirstama and his government. And a lot of

those headlines are being generated by a new book. It's called Get In and is being billed as the

definitive account of Labour's Reinvention under Stama. We're going to be joined by one of its authors

to find out more. Then to Europe, because Kirstalma is continuing his mission to reset

UK-EU relations, all the while trying to work out what a relationship with Donald Trump's

America should look like. We'll assess the Prime Minister's efforts on the world stage.

And finally, we'll come to local elections, or rather no local elections, because the government

has postponed a batch of them.

So what's going on? We'll take a look. Back in the studio, after an enviable midwinter break down

under is IFG senior fellow Jill Rutter. Hi, Jill. Hi, Hannah. And I'm delighted that we are

joined by Gabriel Pogrand, Whitehall editor at the Sunday Times and co-author

with Patrick McGuire of Get In. Hi, Gabriel, have you been having a busy week?

Busy week, but this is the high point, both journalistically but also physically, because I'm on

floor 17 of our news building in a cupboard. It's just me and the lectern.

Now let's start by checking in on what we're hearing about Team Starma, how your book,

Gabriel, sets that in the context of how he got to where he is now and how his government

is now functioning now there in power. I'm curious to kick off the

discussion, Gabriel, just to know how the book is going down in Labour circles. So if I could

characterize what we did in this book, as a degree to which we said the quiet bit out loud

about Kirstana and his relationship with his

political team. He is an unusual politician in that despite his very clear yearning for

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