Working to make government more effective

Working to make government more effective

The door at No. 10 Downing Street.
Podcast

Preparing for Power podcast series

This six-part series takes you behind the scenes to find out how our politicians, their advisers and officials get ready for being in government.

Whoever forms the next government needs to be prepared for the reality of being in power. The job begins almost as soon as the votes have been counted.

So what is it like to go from opposition to government overnight? How do civil servants get ready for the possibility of a transition of power or a hung parliament? And what is it like for a governing party to continue in power after a bruising campaign?

In this six-part series, the Institute for Government takes you behind the scenes to find out how our politicians, their advisers and officials block out the noise of a general election campaign to get ready for being in government. We speak to former ministers, special advisers and senior civil servants to discover how they prepared for that all important election result and its aftermath, to hear their secrets, and to work out the lessons for 2024.

Episodes

What we talk about in this series

Topic
Parliament and the constitution
Keywords
General election Cabinet Shadow cabinet Official opposition Civil servants Majority government Hung parliament
Political party
Conservative Labour
Position
Prime minister Leader of the opposition Cabinet secretary Permanent secretary
Department
Number 10
Public figures
Rishi Sunak Keir Starmer
Publisher
Institute for Government

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