ELECTION EXTRA: Farage’s Russian gambit
Political Currency
Persephonica
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🗓️ 25 June 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
With the general election in sight, has Nigel Farage made a campaign misstep? His claim that the west provoked the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been met with international indignation – but will it have any on his polling?
And as we enter the final 10 days of campaigning, things aren’t looking great over at Conservative HQ – has Rishi Sunak accepted his party’s dismal fate? The Tory leader appears to be switching to a strategy of damage control, but it’s unclear if it will be enough to entice Conservative voters out…
Plus, George Osborne marks 10 years since his first major speech on the Northern Powerhouse. What should an incoming Labour government learn from the mistakes of the past?
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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. |
| 0:13.7 | Well today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
| 0:16.2 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon |
| 0:20.3 | and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in |
| 0:26.0 | 2023.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. |
| 1:05.8 | Unites science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. |
| 1:09.6 | Visit gsk.com to learn more. |
| 1:13.0 | So welcome to our election extra episode, the last full week of campaigning. |
| 1:25.0 | I had a bit of time off from observing the campaign at the weekend and I actually went |
| 1:28.8 | onto Netflix with my oldest daughter and I watched a bit of the era's tour, Taylor's Cut. So I kind of know what I missed by not making it to Taylor Swift last week. |
| 1:40.8 | Kieostama was there, though, with his wife, they had a very good picture from some balcony at |
| 1:46.1 | Wembley, but I think you were also there. I was there last night. I'm still recovering. I'm a recovering swifty. I have to say it was an absolutely spectacular show it was |
| 1:56.9 | quite extraordinary and you know I know this is going to sound a bit kind of |
| 2:02.0 | pedestrian but her work ethic, like just three hours of |
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