Can Kemi Badenoch get free of Nigel Farage?

Political Currency

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Business, Economy, George Osborne, Westminster, Politics, News, Money, Ed Balls

4 • 855 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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The Starmer government’s landmark Assisted Dying bill could be in danger of collapsing, with sponsor Kim Leadbeater now proposing major changes in the final moments. Will this signal the end once and for all? Ed Balls and George Osborne clash over how Keir Starmer should best proceed. Should he pull the bill entirely? Or is it time to press on?

Meanwhile, Kemi Badeoch is marking 100 days in what is arguably one of the worst jobs going in politics: Leading the opposition. She's working hard to hose down the idea of a pact with Nigel Farage and Reform that just keeps coming up. Why is she having such a hard time getting out from his shadow?

And JD Vance (George’s mate, remember?) has made his first trip as Vice President across the Atlantic to join a global artificial intelligence summit in Paris. The US refused to sign the international AI declaration, and the UK followed suit - so what on earth has prompted the UK to abandon a cause that they got going in the first place?

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