Can Sunak save himself?
Political Currency
Persephonica
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🗓️ 21 March 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Rishi Sunak is on a mission to prove his political fortunes are turning round… despite a long list of headaches. How can he get out of the political spiral he’s in? George and Ed pick over some lessons from Prime Ministers past…
He’d do well to heed their words. On the Labour side, Rachel Reeves had made another big play for the role of chancellor, giving the Mais lecture. Is ‘securonomics’ the future of Britain? And does it mean she’s disowning some of Ed’s New Labour decisions?
And forget the Eton rifles, could Britain’s young people actually be going to war?
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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. Well today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
| 0:16.0 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in |
| 0:26.0 | 2023. |
| 0:28.0 | B.com slash and not all. 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, |
| 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 |
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| 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. |
| 1:05.6 | 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 Osbourne. So we're back and we are remote this week looking behind you George the busts on display |
| 1:45.2 | makes me think this is not your normal office. Yeah these are these we should say for people |
| 1:49.5 | who can't see the pictures these are Roman and Greek busts rather than any other kind. And these are the ones that are in the |
| 1:55.9 | British Museum where I'm chairing a board meeting later today. And everything is safe and sound here. |
| 2:01.6 | I can report. |
| 2:04.0 | So those aren't busts that you've had to recover and you're trawling around the world to kind of |
| 2:07.6 | find the lost treasures? |
| 2:09.2 | These aren't the ones that were nicked. |
| 2:10.4 | We actually have on display here a very good exhibition of some of the things that were nicked if people want to come and see for free which we've recovered and we've put there they're more like glass gems that were from the Roman Greek period which on display just off the entrance hall. You know, new era of transparency and all that. |
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