Podcasts · Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Does Sam Freedman have a plan to fix the failed state?

· 36 min · S1 E306

Episode Does Sam Freedman have a plan to fix the failed state?

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As the IfG knows all too well, government sometimes – perhaps often – doesn’t seem to work. So who or what is to blame? Sam Freedman, IfG senior fellow and author of Failed State: Why nothing works and how to fix it, joins Hannah White for a fascinating discussion about what has gone wrong – and how to make it right.

From a stuttering civil service to a stumbling parliament, failed prime ministers and fraught permanent secretaries, Hannah and Sam take a journey through the failures of British governance – and explore what reforms the Labour government could introduce to help turn the system around.

Produced by Milo Hynes.

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