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What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

BREAKING NEWS - Meanwhile Back At Labour's Economy...

What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

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Politics, Comedy, News, News Commentary

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

All the attention on Donald's shenanigans has pulled focus from important economic news at home. Have things got worse or better? (not a difficult one to answer). I ask whether Starmer actually benefits from Donald's dramatics, while acknowledging he might not have had the worst PMQs. CATCH ME ON MY TOUR ‘Basic Bloke 2: There’s No Bloke Without Fire’. Book tickets here: https://www.livenation.co.uk/geoff-norcott-tickets-adp1252793JOIN the Podcast Patreon and receive each episode early, AD-FREE & with bonus content https://www.patreon.com/geoffnorcott?fan_landing=true Join my MAILING LIST for priority Tour booking & special offers https://signup.ymlp.com/xgyueuwbgmgb Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What Most Impulse?

0:04.1

Hello and welcome to this breaking news episode of what most people think in the week where the sale of Greenland was suddenly on, was that this week probably?

0:24.1

And then there were going to be tariffs on European countries that opposed the sale.

0:28.3

And then, well, I'm recording this on Thursday.

0:32.2

And Trump gave a couple of fairly batch it speeches.

0:36.4

And it feels like, I don't know, you know what Trump does,

0:38.4

he gets the snow globe of global geopolitics.

0:42.1

He shakes it up and sometimes that snow globe comes back down.

0:46.5

But it's been kind of breathless stuff.

0:48.0

And as I keep saying, this is a UK-based podcast.

0:50.8

So we'll start closer to home because there's news in the UK economy regarding

0:54.7

inflation and unemployment.

0:57.4

Can you guess what it is,

0:58.3

have higher or lower?

0:59.4

Has it got higher or lower?

1:01.4

Well,

1:01.6

I think we've all got a fairly good guess.

1:04.2

There was also another interest in PMQs where could Kemi keep up her recent run?

1:09.9

She's been doing well at PMQ's, but could she keep it going?

1:13.3

And we have the first interjection from Bobby Jay, Bobby Jem Rick, Robert Generic, Jem Rick Lamar.

1:19.4

He got a question at PMQ's.

1:21.3

We also had the first polls suggesting how that defection has done.

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