Starmer looks back in anger

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The prime minister followed Tuesday’s Oasis-fuelled Cool Britannia nostalgia with a rather gloomier vision of Britain in 2024 – with a speech that heaped blame on the last government for the tough choices to come. So will things only get worse? The Guardian’s Jess Elgot joins the podcast team to respond to Keir Starmer’s speech – and look ahead to Monday’s return of parliament. The failure to fix the housing crisis stretches way back to the 1990s – so why have successive governments failed to build the homes the country needs? A new IfG report takes a tour through history – and has some solutions for the future. Plus: What is like to be a minister who takes maternity leave – and is the system working? Another new IfG report speaks to six former ministers. Hannah White presents, with Jess Elgot, Joe Owen, Sophie Metcalfe and Nicola Blacklaws Produced by Podmasters 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. I'm Hannah White.
0:15.6	So for some people, I'm mainly fans of Oasis, this week has been spent daydreaming about the optimism of Cool Britannia.
0:22.4	But on the same day that the Gallagher brothers buried the hatchet, we saw Kier Stalma paint
0:26.0	a rather less sunny picture of Britain in 2024 and the challenge that faces the Labour government.
0:32.4	Things can only, it seems, get worse, at least for a while anyway.
0:37.2	So what was Stama trying to do?
0:38.7	What clues did his speech give us about what the government's planning to do next?
0:43.0	And what will the return of Parliament on Monday hold? We are going to take a look.
0:47.6	A massive policy priority for Stama is obviously fixing the housing crisis, but that's an ambition
0:53.0	that has tripped up many governments
0:54.9	over the past two decades. We've got a new IFG report out this week, which explores what
1:00.8	keeps going wrong and how to avoid repeating the errors of the past. We're going to be talking
1:05.2	to its author today. And it's not all doom and gloom. Government's become a lot more enlightened about maternity leave
1:12.5	this week. We've published another new IFG paper, revealing how the experience of MPs and ministers
1:17.6	has changed and exploring what needs to happen next. And we're going to be speaking to the author of
1:23.2	that report too. Joining me throughout is IFG Director of Impact, Joe Owen. Hi, Joe.
1:29.5	Hi, Hannah.
1:30.4	And I'm delighted that we're joined today by the Guardian's Deputy Political Editor, Jess Elgot.
1:34.8	Hi, Jess.
1:35.5	Hello.
1:36.6	Did you manage a break from politics over the summer at all?
1:39.3	I did actually had quite long breaks.
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