Stephanie Peacock

That is the only conclusion I could come to when we were Missing having a civil society minister and why hadn't someone been announced and how long was it going to take? And then almost straight away after our podcast went out, we now have a new minister for civil society.

We have Vicky Foxcroft, who has replaced Stephanie Peacock.

Vicky's remit, she's now also responsible, though, for gambling, the National Lottery, youth, loneliness, digital inclusion and skills.

She has been welcomed by sector leaders with some of the articles that I was reading and her brief also includes sport, tourism, place and digital governance.

And hopefully we might get a sense of what of what her intentions are and how.

important a priority.

What I thought was more interesting, actually, was that Stephanie Peacock has moved to becoming the Minister for the Impact Economy, which was obviously a big issue for Sir Keir Starmer.

But they've moved that from the Cabinet Office to DCMS.

Katie.

So two months after a UK government reshuffle, Vicky Foxcroft has been unveiled as the new Charities Minister, taking over that brief from Stephanie Peacock.

Foxcroft is the current MP for Lewisham North and her portfolio will include youth, gambling, loneliness and digital inclusion alongside the civil society.

We at the Chartered Institute of Fundraising will be writing to her to welcome her into post and we hope to meet her as soon as possible because charities and fundraisers make a huge contribution to communities and the economy across the whole of the UK.

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So does the Prime Minister have a spring in his step as he heads from Manhattan to Merseyside for the Labor conference? My name is Alex Thomas, and this is Inside Briefing, the podcast from the Institute for Government.

It's entirely transactional and kind of in the, in the moment.

Emma, I'm interested 'cause obviously you're, you know, you, you follow Labour members and supporters and that kind of ecosystem.

How does the, you know, sort of necessary relationship that any Labour leader with their prime minister has to have with the US president and this particular US president kind of go down in, in Labour world?

Just to have a little plug here, I would look at the site in the, the days to come because we have got some polling on which countries Labour members see as more or less friendly to the UK, which will be coming out soon.