Boris’s End Of Term Report

INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government

As Parliament breaks up, how will the Government look back on this unique and turbulent term? As Boris Johnson tries to reset his leadership after some missteps and missed opportunities, what are the post-pandemic problems he needs to fix? Two years in, his policy platform has still to take shape, so how long has the Prime Minister got? An IfG panel gets out its red pen to give marks to Johnson: Year Two.

• “Looking back, it’s quite hard to remember how grim January and February were.” – Joe Marshall
• “The excuse that ‘we just need to get on and deal with the virus’ just isn’t there anymore.” – Hannah White
• “Politics is going to unfreeze in the autumn, and a lot of difficult debates are going to re-emerge.” – Alex Thomas

Presented by Bronwen Maddox with Hannah White, Alex Thomas, Tom Pope and Joe Marshall. Audio production by Alex Rees. Inside Briefing is a Podmasters Production for the IfG.

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