Working to make government more effective

Working to make government more effective

TV screens with Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker of the House of Commons
Podcast

The Hoyle crisis

ConservativeHome’s Henry Hill joins the podcast team to make sense of the Gaza debate and to weigh up how much trouble Speaker Lindsay Hoyle is in.

Wednesday night’s debate on Gaza saw chaotic – and unedifying – scenes in Commons which brought parliament into disrepute. ConservativeHome’s Henry Hill joins the podcast team to make sense of what happened and to weigh up how much trouble Speaker Lindsay Hoyle is in.

From trouble in parliament to problems with government, the IfG’s Commission on the Centre of Government will publish its final report on 11 March. The podcast team set the scene – and explain why the winner of the next general election needs to radically redesign the centre of power.

PLUS: Kemi Badenoch vs The Post Office. The business secretary has knocked Rishi Sunak out of the headlines, but will this help her chances of succeeding him if a vacancy were to arise?

What we talked about in this episode

People featured in this episode

Topic
Parliament and the constitution Civil service Public bodies Procurement
Keywords
Parliamentary scrutiny Foreign affairs General election Civil servants Government reform Civil service reform
Political party
Labour Scottish National Party Conservative
Position
Speaker of the House of Commons Leader of the opposition
Administration
Sunak government
Department
Number 10
Legislature
House of Commons
Public figures
Lindsay Hoyle Keir Starmer Rishi Sunak Kemi Badenoch
Publisher
Institute for Government

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