Stop boats, get votes?
Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government
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Show Notes
Channel 4’s political editor Gary Gibbon joins the IfG podcast team to examine whether the government’s controversial new asylum bill will actually work, and whether the politics of promising to stop the boats will win the Conservatives support – and pose a headache for Labour.
Boris Johnson wants to knight his father. So is it time for Rishi Sunak to do away with the increasingly farcical tradition of prime ministerial resignation honours?
And talking of abolitions, why do governments so often seek to abolish public bodies – and why does it so often go wrong? A new IfG report has the answers.
Hannah White presents. With Alex Thomas, Rhys Clyne and Grant Dalton.
Produced by Candice McKenzie
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