A May election?
Political Currency
Persephonica
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🗓️ 7 March 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
With the budget behind us, Ed pushes George on whether he’s still backing a November election. Tory sources are saying there’s a push from the centre of the party to send the country to the polls in May, but George has pretty strong views on what kind of idea that would be ….
Meanwhile, Lord David Cameron is making lists and taking risks. The Foreign Secretary just celebrated 100 days in office, and George says he is being true to form by releasing a video listing off his lengthy travel agenda. But while anyone can hop on a plane – especially if you don’t have a constituency to tend to – Ed and George agree his willingness to push Israel on its approach to Gaza is shifting the international political mood, and restoring faith in the foreign office.
And Rishi Sunak and wife Akshata Murty’s interview with Grazia about their home life, meant to be lighthearted and relatable, has been met with widespread cringing. Is Rishi listening to any of George’s advice at all?
Producer: Rosie Stopher
Production support: Miriam Hall
Production Manager: Flick Heath
Executive Producers: Dino Sofos and Ellie Clifford
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind, |
| 0:06.1 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:13.7 | Well today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
| 0:16.2 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon |
| 0:20.3 | and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in |
| 0:26.0 | 2023.S.K. |
| 0:35.0 | We're lucky to live in a time when many of us can access medicine when we become ill, |
| 0:38.5 | but even better than recovering from being unwell is not getting ill in the first place. |
| 0:43.2 | Yes, G.S.K believes that prevention is the best medicine and that's why they've built one of the |
| 0:48.2 | broadest vaccine portfolios in the world. |
| 0:50.6 | G.S.K. say that prevention to them means pioneering new medicines to reduce HIV transmission |
| 0:56.2 | or stopping chronic conditions from progressing to more serious complications. |
| 1:00.4 | That's because preventing disease is the best possible outcome for all of us and that's why G.S.K. |
| 1:05.8 | Unites science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. |
| 1:09.6 | Visit gsk.com to learn more. This is political currency with Ed Bulls and George Osbrough. So the day after the budget did a hot take yesterday and we are back in the studio. |
| 1:43.0 | Yes, so we had an initial look at the budget, but obviously we need to dive a bit more deeply into it. |
| 1:49.0 | And particularly I thought into Jeremy Hunt's jokes at the dispatch box because... In advert commas. Jokes in |
| 1:55.1 | advert commas because none of them were funny. Well of course that's your |
| 1:58.8 | opinion. Okay, look I mean Torrey Backbenchers didn't laugh. |
| 2:03.2 | How about that? |
| 2:04.2 | Yeah, okay, I wasn't the best performance by the Chuckle Brothers, I have to say. |
| 2:08.6 | But I thought there was one joke, which I think some people would call fat-shaming, wouldn't they? |
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