Hello and welcome to Inside Briefing, the podcast from the Institute for Government.

I'm Tim Durant, your host this week. So, the government has nearly made it to Easter recess,

but not before a parting gift from the US.

Donald Trump has set out his grand tariff plan, which some are describing as the biggest change

to global trade in over a century.

So what happens now?

Has a global trade war begun?

How big a hit will the UK economy take?

And what options does the Prime Minister have?

We'll take a look.

And then, after reviewing the week's big story,

we'll review reviews, because the government has launched a lot of them. Will they succeed?

A new IFG report has set out its verdict. We're going to talk to its authors. Joining me throughout

are the IFG's senior fellow duo of Giles Wilkes and Jill Rutter. Giles, the sun is out and you've

been down to Cornwall. How was that? Oh, it was lovely.

I went down there for a big sort of gathering called the Anthropy Festival at the Eden Project.

And apart from the fact that it seemed to take about 14 hours to get there, it was well worth it.

It was a lot of interesting discussions in places like the Mediterranean biome about the future of the economy and so forth.

So I think we basically fixed everything and you should expect everything to improve from here on.

Good. Good news. Thank you. Jill, you're a fan of the sun as well and it's tennis season. Are you in good spirits?

Well, it's quite interesting because I tried to play tennis last night and there was an absolute mob scene at the tennis club.

So I think there's some quite interesting formula that determines attendance there, which is a sort of lagged function of the number of sunny days.

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