Working to make government more effective

Working to make government more effective

Prime minister Rishi Sunak during a general election campaign event at ExCeL London
Podcast

General election 2024: question time special

The IfG's team of experts are in the studio to answer all your election questions.

Rishi Sunak has braved the weather and called a general election. So what happens now? The IfG has been bombarded with questions about what this all means for government, for parliament, for the civil service, for legislation, for candidates, for conferences, and more.

And these really are the type of questions that get the IfG’s collective pulse racing. So we’ve scrambled together a team of IfG experts to answer all your questions.

Tune to hear Hannah White, Joe Owen, Cath Haddon and Emma Norris tell you everything you need to know.

What we talked about in this episode

People featured in this episode

Topic
Parliament and the constitution Civil service
Keywords
General election Civil servants Official opposition Cabinet Shadow cabinet
Political party
Conservative Labour
Position
Prime minister Leader of the opposition
Administration
Sunak government
Department
Number 10
Legislature
House of Commons
Public figures
Rishi Sunak Keir Starmer
Publisher
Institute for Government

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