Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

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Ten-year plans. Number 10 North and devolution first. Burning platforms. Rewiring the state. Rethinking the UK’s post-Brexit EU relationship. Maybe even ending 40 years of neoliberalism. Andy Burnham has big plans for government – but will this prime minister succeed where so many of his predecessors have faltered? Where is government working well and what is it doing badly? What can be done to make No10, the Treasury and the rest of government function more effectively? What can Burnham and John Healey do to post the economy? What will Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives and the other opposition parties do to hold the government to account? How might Donald Trump shape British politics – and how could the UK’s relations with the EU change in the years ahead? Get behind the scenes in Westminster, Whitehall and beyond on the weekly podcast from Britain’s leading governmental think tank, where we analyse the latest events in politics and explain what they mean. Every week on Inside Briefing, IfG director Hannah White and the team welcomes special guests for a thought-provoking conversation on what makes government work – and how to fix it when it doesn’t.

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Budget 2026: What do John Healey’s choices mean for the economy and the government?

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John Healey’s first budget as chancellor on 28 October was a huge moment for Andy Burnham’s government. A difficult fiscal inheritance, made more challenging still by the war in Iran, means Healey and Burnham faced a…
Budget 2026: Does John Healey mean business?

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The budget is nearly here. So what is chancellor John Healey going to say at the Despatch Box on Wednesday? The Observer’s Ben Zaranko joins the podcast team to preview the biggest day yet in Andy Burnham’s premiership.…
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Can Zack fight back?

2026-10-09 · 44 min

Another by-election, another win for Andy Burnham - with the Greens defeated in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election. Deltapoll's Joe Twyman joins the pod team to explore what the PM’s by-election double really tells…
Burnham goes big: What difference does it make?

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No lectern. No tie. And quite a few tears. Andy Burnham promised a different kind of speech. But did the prime minister deliver? After watching Burnham's first Labour conference speech as party leader and prime…
Mersey Mersey Me: Will Burnham pass his Labour conference test?

2026-09-25 · 47 min

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The 72 million pound questions

2026-09-18 · 41 min

With Westminster been rocked by the news of a record-breaking – and maybe game-changing – £72 million donation to Reform UK, new Lib Dem peer Tim Leunig joins the podcast team to assess how the government might respond,…

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Oldest episode in feed: 10/2019 · over 7 years
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