Do They Know It's Election Time?
Political Currency
Persephonica
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
George comes bearing gifts… the news of a winter election next year. As parliament winds down for Christmas, Ed and George reveal there’s no rest for politicians. The mood in the Tory party is gloomy, but could this be a critical moment for the opposition to strike?
Cameron, Starmer and Sunak have all been calling for a ‘sustainable ceasefire’ in Gaza. But is there such a thing? George throws down the challenge to our new ‘Rolls-Royce’ foreign sec.
The junior doctors are on strike again. Ed and George think they’re asking for too much. Can any government get this under control before polling day?
Producers: Rachel Balmer and Rosie Stopher
Production Manager: Flick Heath
Executive Producers: Dino Sofos and Ellie Clifford
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to roll out EV charging hubs in the UK and we're keeping oil and gas |
| 0:06.0 | flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all that's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:11.8 | While today we're mostly in oil and gas. We increased the proportion |
| 0:15.8 | of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses |
| 0:20.6 | from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023. |
| 0:25.8 | BP.com slash and not all. |
| 0:28.8 | 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. So we're back a few days to go to Christmas. Have you done your Christmas shopping? I've still got to do mine. |
| 1:46.4 | What do you mean you still got to do your Christmas? I always I I believe in doing Christmas shopping on Christmas Eve or the day before. I want to kind of get into the final spirit. |
| 1:56.5 | I like a Salvation Army band in the shopping centre, like a mince pie halfway through the morning. |
| 2:01.3 | I love to leave it really late. |
| 2:03.0 | Our house has been like the Santa toy factory for the last month. |
| 2:07.0 | Everything is wrapped and ready to go. We're all set. |
| 2:10.0 | And we had an early Christmas present on this podcast because we have just got the news that we've had over a million |
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