Christmas Questions Special: Jeremy Hunt, Rachel Reeves & Stephen Fry
Political Currency
Persephonica
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Ed and George answer questions from some very special guests...
Jeremy Hunt asks about the power budgets can have on elections, Stephen Fry grills George on the Elgin Marbles, and Susannah Reid wants to know what Ed and George think is the most significant TV interview they’ve seen.
As we head into an election year, they reminisce on their first time as candidates, how they met their big political partners, and Rachel Reeves asks them about their best Christmases in the Treasury.
Producer: Rachel Balmer
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. 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 |
| 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. |
| 1:05.6 | 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. Hello, We're |
| 1:34.0 | ... |
| 1:38.0 | ... ... ... |
| 1:41.0 | Hello, |
| 1:42.0 | welcome to Plicko Co currency, our very special Q&A edition between Christmas and New Year, |
| 1:48.1 | loads of questions, including from some very special guests. |
| 1:51.9 | Yeah, it's going to be exciting. |
| 1:53.0 | First time we've done this. |
| 1:54.2 | And it's amazing who sent questions in. |
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