Selection headaches & tactical dilemmas

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

4.6 • 252 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Matt Hancock has come home. Football might be coming home. But Rishi Sunak's problems on the home front are going nowhere. With the Conservative Party threatening rebellion on multiple fronts, what can the prime minister do to make progress on his legislative agenda? The IfG podcast team dissect the PM's parliamentary problems. Sunak also has a ministerial headache to contend with, as accusations about ministerial behaviour - with Dominic Raab still making awkward headlines - find their way into the press. So does the civil service need a new complaints process? Plus - Why is the civil service failing to recruit outside talent, and what does it mean if it lacks enough specialist skills? Emma Norris presents. With Alice Lilly, Alex Thomas, Cath Haddon and Jordan Urban. Produced by Candice McKenzie 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.
0:14.2	I'm Emma Norris, Deputy Director of the Institute and today's Deputy podcast presenter.
0:18.8	Some tricky opponents dispatched, a couple of early wind secured, and now it's into the knockout phase, and that's when podcast presenter. Some tricky opponents dispatched, a couple of early
0:21.3	wind secured, and now it's into the knockout phase, and that's when things get a whole lot
0:25.6	trickier. Yes, Rishi-Soonak's quest for general election glory continues, so take a break from
0:30.5	England's World Cup journey and join us as we assess some of the big challenges ahead for
0:34.2	the Prime Minister in Parliament. Unfortunately, the Prime Minister is under pressure
0:37.6	from other quarters too. With Dominic Raab, the latest minister accused of bullying behaviour. So what
0:42.7	needs to be done? We'll discuss how Senac can fix a problem that seems to becoming a pattern.
0:47.3	We're going to stick with the civil service and look at its age-old problem of attracting
0:50.8	outside talent, a recruitment headache that could have serious consequences.
0:55.3	A new IFG report does have some solutions, though, and we'll be talking to its author.
0:59.6	And to discuss all of this, I'm joined by a hat trick of IFG colleagues who have been as
1:03.7	gripped by Matt Hancock's run to the final as they are by England's progress in Qatar.
1:07.9	And at this point, I should warn listeners that there are quite a lot more
1:11.2	football funds coming. Please send complaints to Sam McCrory, the director of comms at the Institute for
1:16.2	Government. Welcome, Alex Thomas, Kath Haddon and Alice Lilly. Hi, everyone. Hi, Emma. Alex, admit it,
1:22.8	you were relieved that Hancock didn't win on I'm a celebrity. Well, I just, you know,
1:27.4	it's important to go for the, you know, the thrill of the competition.
1:31.4	It's not about who wins and loses. It's the taking part, I suppose. The, but the thing I particularly
1:36.5	enjoyed was the voting system. I mean, the fact you could, you know, this is the, this is the
1:39.5	this is the IFG angle on IMA Celebrity is that you could vote five times on the app. I was just looking on the ITV website. Did you vote? I did not vote. And you could vote up to 600 times by phone,
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