Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Inside the Election stalemate – plus leading Brexiter Graham Brady MP


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“It’s a ‘yes, but’. But that ‘yes, but’ is political gold-dust…” This week on the podcast that explains how government works (and often doesn’t)… Boris Johnson moves his Brexit Deal further than Theresa May ever pushed hers, but not quite far enough. What are the legal and constitutional positions that hem him in? How soon would the PM need to dissolve Parliament in order to get an election this side of Christmas?


Also: In public services, is outsourcing on the way out and insourcing coming in? If a contract is less a licence to print money than a “Winner’s Curse”, where next for the orthodoxy that has governed public service for decades?


Plus we speak to leading Brexiter Graham Brady, chairman of the Conservative Party 1922 Committee, about rebels, backstops and the state of the Tory Party. Re-convening the Stormont Assembly – what does it mean for Northern Ireland and Brexit too? And can the panel get through the podcast without ever mentioning the Fixed Term Parliaments Act?


Hosted by Bronwen Maddox with Dr Cath Haddon, Joe Owen and Maddy Thimont Jack. Audio production by Robin Leeburn at Fairly Media.  


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