Are the Democrats celebrating too soon?
Political Currency
Persephonica
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🗓️ 22 August 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
The Democratic National Convention is underway in Chicago with jubilant scenes. Fortunately for us - while Ed Balls is on holiday - George Osborne has persuaded former shadow Paymaster General Jonathan Ashworth to be Political Currency’s eyes and ears on the ground as Kamala Harris looks to become the Democratic Party’s formal presidential nominee. But are spirits just a little too high for what is shaping up to be a very closely fought race? And have the Dems been taking notes from the Labour party?
Plus, Ed and George have recorded their ultimate guide to summer political reading. We hope you’ve got a big suitcase - you’ll need it for all of these!
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like designing two hydrogen plants, |
| 0:06.2 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:13.0 | While today we're mostly in oil and gas we increased the proportion of our |
| 0:16.8 | global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other |
| 0:19.8 | transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023. |
| 0:26.4 | BP.com slash and not all. |
| 0:29.1 | This episode is brought to you by G.S.K. |
| 0:35.0 | We're lucky to live in a time when many of us can access medicine when we become ill, |
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| 1:09.6 | Visit gsk.com to learn more. This is political currency with Ed Bulls and George Osbroughts. Welcome to political currency. |
| 1:37.0 | I'm afraid what you just heard was fake news because Ed Bulls is not with me today. He is on holiday. |
| 1:47.5 | He is interrailing around Europe, believe it or not. I didn't make that up. I don't know what he's up to. He's waltzing in Warsaw or doing the |
| 1:55.9 | Passo deublée in Prague or something like that. And we have a very very good stand in. |
| 2:01.3 | Another Gordon Brown acolite, Jonathan Ashworth. Jonathan, welcome. |
| 2:07.0 | Hello George and I am absolutely delighted to be here making my debut appearance on the |
| 2:12.4 | Political currency podcast a |
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