Working to make government more effective

Working to make government more effective

Grant Shapps and Rishi Sunak at the cabinet table.
Podcast

The Rishi Reshuffle

The IfG podcast team is back to take stock of the last few months – and look ahead to what a lively couple of months might bring for government.

Summer is nearly over. Parliament is set to return. And the Inside Briefing team is back to take stock of the last few months – and look ahead to what a lively couple of months might bring.

Ben Wallace is out, Grant Shapps is the new defence secretary, and Claire Coutinho has become the youngest member of the cabinet. But what does Rishi Sunak’s mini-reshuffle tell us about his priorities for government – and is there a better way to go about appointing government ministers?

What should we look out for at the party conference season? How is the economy faring and are tax cuts at all likely? And what stage of the Nando’s spice scale is politics going to hit this autumn?

What we talked about in this episode

31 AUG 2023 Insight paper

How to appoint a cabinet

This guest paper from Tim Leunig outlines a more cohesive way to approach cabinet formation

People featured in this episode

Topic
Ministers Public finances Parliament and the constitution
Keywords
Government reshuffle Cabinet General election Tax Economy Public spending Party conferences Official opposition
Political party
Conservative Labour
Position
Prime minister
Administration
Sunak government
Department
Ministry of Defence
Public figures
Rishi Sunak Grant Shapps Ben Wallace
Publisher
Institute for Government

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