Warheads Revisited – Inside the Integrated Defence Review

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🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

What’s in the mammoth 114-page Integrated Review of Britain’s defence and foreign policy? Should we really be putting aircraft carriers in the South China Sea and lifting the caps on nuclear warheads? And can the Government really re-tilt Britain from Europe to the “Indo-Pacific”? Plus, what will be the fallout from the murder of Sarah Everard and the Met’s disastrous mishandling of a subsequent vigil for policing and women’s safety? Our special guests are Sophia Gaston, Director of the British Foreign Policy group, and former senior advisor to Tony Blair John McTernan. “This review is a totally clean break from the polarised rhetoric of the Brexit era… This is not a pieces of boosterish British exceptionalism. ” – Sophia Gaston “Nuclear decisions are never just about the deterrent. They’re about how you’re perceived at the top table.” – Cath Haddon “Britain wants to be the leading European presence in the Indo-Pacific region… And that means some negotiation with the EU to say the least.” – Sophia Gaston “This doesn’t feel like a properly authored policy. It’s cut and paste. It’s gesture.” – John McTernan Presented by Bronwen Maddox with Cath Haddon and Alex Thomas. Audio production by Alex Rees. Inside Briefing is a Podmasters Production for the IfG. 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.
0:15.0	I'm Bronwyn Maddox.
0:17.0	What is Britain's place in the world?
0:19.0	That's the question which the government's integrated review of security, defence, development and foreign policy, which is published on Tuesday, set out to answer.
0:27.8	So on today's episode, we're going to be exploring the 114-page document to make sense of the Prime Minister's vision for global Britain and how to defend it.
0:37.4	And then we're going to turn to the protests that have followed the awful murder of Sarah. the Prime Minister's vision for Global Britain and how to defend it.
0:42.2	And then we're going to turn to the protests that have followed the awful murder of Sarah Everard and the questions about what needs to change for women to be able to walk home safely at night.
0:47.8	The heavy-handed policing of a vigil in London brought calls for the resignation of Cressida Dick,
0:52.4	the Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.
0:55.0	She says her officers were doing their duty as they saw it.
0:58.8	We'll take a look at the thin blue line between public order and protest.
1:03.4	Joining me in the studio today is Alex Thomas, who leads the IFG's work on the Civil Service.
1:08.1	Hi, Alex.
1:08.9	Hello, Bromyn.
1:10.2	We've also got Kath Haddon, our senior
1:12.0	fellow on constitutional issues, also with us. Hi, Kath. Hi, Kaff. Hi, Bronwyn. And we got John McTurman,
1:17.9	and IFG senior fellow who was at the Clap and Collin Vigil. Hi, John. Hi, Bronwyn. We're also joined by
1:24.6	Sophia Gaston, the director of the British Foreign Policy Group. Hello, Sophia.
1:28.3	Hi, Bronwyn.
1:30.3	Great that you could join us.
1:31.3	We'll come on to the detail in just a moment, but I'm guessing that for your group, the publication of the Integrated Review is a big deal.
1:37.3	A very big deal, and it's been an enormous amount of work behind the scenes.
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