{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6851792d002f9da49a7fbef5/691f1de03962bb012e07463a?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Q&A: Is it time to abolish the Treasury? ","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6851792d002f9da49a7fbef5/1763646703850-802e1672-a7b0-4581-9c16-6ae8229a13dd.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>To submit your urgent questions to Michael and Maddie, go to: spectator.co.uk/quiteright</p><p>This week on <em>Quite right!</em> Q&amp;A: Is the Treasury still fit for purpose – or has ‘Treasury brain’ taken over Whitehall? Michael and Maddie dig into the culture and power of Britain’s most influential department, from the Oxbridge-heavy ‘Treasury boys’ to a ‘visionless’ Chancellor. </p><p>Then: after Michael’s suggestion that Piers Morgan should be the next director-general of the BBC – why, in his view, could cnly a disruptive outsider could shake the organisation out of its complacency.</p><p>Plus: the rise of ‘Mar-a-Lago face’ in US conservative politics, and whether Britain has its own aesthetic quirks – from Ozempic-thinned MPs to the enduring Labour ‘power bob’.</p><p>Produced by Oscar Edmondson.</p>","author_name":"The Spectator"}