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Welcome to F.T. Politics, a weekly podcast on British politics from the Financial Times. I'm Sebastian Payne,

digital comment editor and this week will be discussing why global leaders aren't

facing up to the world's economic challenges and how the EU referendum campaignenn campaign is already full of fear and loathing.

To do this I'm delighted to be joined by former Shadow Chancellor and F.T. journalist Ed Bors,

our chief foreign commentator Gideon Rachman, Political Editor George Parker, and our political columnist Janan Ganesh.

Thank you all for joining.

So we'll begin by looking at politicians on the world stage and where they're failing to do their job.

In a piece for the FT this week, Labour's former Shadow Chancellor Ed Bors, argued that

the G20 world leaders need to act before we face another economic meltdown and I'm delighted to

have Ed with us in the studio today. So Ed in your piece you argued that the G20 came

of age during the 2009 financial crisis where world leaders all stepped in together driven by

your former boss Gordon Brown to stop a meltdown of the system.

Why is it time for that again?

I think first of all the first two months of this year have been pretty shaky for the world

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