The Only Way Is Sussex

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

4.6 • 252 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Will the reverberations from Harry and Meghan’s interview with Oprah Winfrey change the Monarchy? Is this a passing PR crisis or an existential moment for the Monarchy? And how do you carry out an inquiry into an institution as impenetrable as “the Firm”? Plus, as schools return en masse, can we rely on the £37bn Test and Trace system when inquiries have shown it to have made little to no contribution to the fight against COVID? And is the much-derided 1% pay proposal for NHS staff just Boris Johnson’s next U-Turn in waiting? This week’s special guest is CNN’s Luke McGee. “It’s an institution in crisis but it’s also a family in crisis.” – Cath Haddon “If you look at polling around Meghan and Harry’s generation, they do think it’s absurd to bow and curtsey to your grandmother.” – Luke McGee “If the Government thinks a 1% rise is sufficient for the NHS, it will have to work hard to explain how that’s going to help NHS recruitment.” – Graham Atkins Presented by Bronwen Maddox with Cath Haddon, Alex Thomas and Graham Atkins. Audio production by Alex Rees See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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.
0:15.3	I'm Bronwyn Maddox. We at the IFG may be based in Westminster, at least when we're not working from home,
0:21.4	but there is only one place to start the podcast this week, Los Angeles and that interview.
0:27.4	The shockwaves from Harry and Megan's astonishing sit-down with Oprah Winfrey are still being felt
0:31.5	and will be for some time to come.
0:34.2	We're going to be exploring the consequences for the monarchy in the UK and abroad.
0:38.7	A bad week for the royal family, but a better week for families across the UK. Schools are
0:43.0	open again, in person with the government hoping that regular testing will keep case numbers down,
0:48.4	but an influential parliamentary committee has concluded that there is no clear evidence
0:53.3	that the government's 37 billion
0:55.6	test and trace system worked. So have lessons been learnt? What went wrong? And a week on from
1:01.7	Rishi-Sunax's budget, we'll look at the main row that continues the proposed 1% pay rise for the
1:07.3	NHS. The Prime Minister is under pressure to show more generosity. Look at the politics
1:12.0	of this and where it goes next. Joining me in the studio is that renowned IFG duo, Senior Fellow,
1:18.1	Kath Haddon, who leads our work on the Constitution. Hi, Kath. Hi, Bronwyn. And Alex Thomas,
1:23.3	who runs our civil service work. Hi, Alex. Hello, Bronwyn. And I'm delighted to be joined today by
1:29.5	Luke McGee of CNN. Hi, Luke. Great, have you with us. Thank you very inviting me. Very delighted to be here.
1:35.3	Great. Tell us where you're based. Right now, I'm looking west out of a window in Hampstead with a very low
1:41.1	sun glaring at me, but normally I'm largely based in Westminster,
1:45.7	with occasional trips to Brussels when we're covering EU matters. But yeah, for the last year,
1:51.0	I've been sat in a very small room looking at, looking sadly as a laptop. Working to US time
1:56.0	zones. Yeah, we, I mean, CNN has really expanded in Europe recently. And, well, not really recently,
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