18: LEADING: George Osborne: Austerity, Boris Johnson, and the UK's next Prime Minister

Leading

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Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Does George Osborne regret leaving politics? Does he think Sunak can win the next general election? What did he admire about New Labour, Tony Blair, and Gordon Brown? Tune in to today's episode of Leading to hear Alastair and Rory's conversation with the former Chancellor of the Exchequer. TRIP Plus: Become a member of The Rest Is Politics Plus to support the podcast, enjoy ad-free listening to both TRIP and Leading, benefit from discount book prices on titles mentioned on the pod, join our Discord chatroom, and receive early access to live show tickets and Question Time episodes. Just head to therestispolitics.com to sign up. Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics Email: [email protected] Producers: Dom Johnson + Nicole Maslen Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:13.0	Welcome to another episode of the Restis Politics.
0:15.0	Welcome to another episode of the Restis Politics leading with me Alisto Campbell
0:22.0	and me Rory Stewart.
0:24.0	And I am in a building with which I'm very, very, very, very familiar because this building, in a
0:30.5	rather swanky part of London, used to be the office of Tony Blair's empire.
0:36.4	But no listeners, we are not interviewing Tony Blair for the third time.
0:40.4	We are interviewing George Osborne, former Chancellor.
0:46.0	I don't know how many jobs you have these days.
0:47.6	There was a time when you had about a dozen jobs on the go.
0:50.0	Were you down to his single figures yet?
0:52.0	Just about.
0:54.0	So thank you.
0:55.0	I have a primary job and we're in the office of that job.
1:00.0	Okay, well it's certainly what we call pretty high-end real estate.
1:03.2	Tony Player would not have been anywhere else.
1:05.2	And I guess where I'd like to start is with austerity, if I may. I'll tell you you why because I've just come from a confidence on mental health services and it was really depressing and I've just walked around from the tube station and there were quite a few people who are living on the streets
1:24.8	and we know what's happening in our public services.
1:26.5	And I just wonder whether you looking back will at least accept that austerity in the policy
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