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Political Currency

Persephonica

Business, Economy, George Osborne, Westminster, Politics, News, Money, Ed Balls

4 • 855 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week George Osborne and Ed Balls are taking questions in person, with a select few Kitchen Cabinet members joining the first ever live audience recording of the show.

Is Fredreich Merz right to worry that the European Union will face a financial crisis thanks to government debt? Is AI data management the way forward for driving significant savings in both welfare and healthcare? And is Trumpian rhetoric having an adverse effect on centre-right campaigning?

Plus, they turn their minds to an area of true expertise: how to manage life after a career in politics. How do you keep bitterness at bay and forge a new, meaningful career? Is a comparison to a retired top-level footballer too much? George doesn’t think so…

You could have been listening to this episode of EMQs early and ad-free with a Political Currency Gold subscription! And not only that… you could have been in the room asking a question as a member of Political Currency’s KITCHEN CABINET, along with early and ad-free listening, and exclusive Political Currency merch

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0:00.0	This episode of political currency is brought to you by British Airways.
0:03.3	Yes, from Davos to G7 meetings, from trips to Washington to
0:08.0	Beijing. We have spent a surprising amount of time in politics, not in Downing Street,
0:12.9	but travelling across the world.
0:14.5	That's right. And all of them change the way you think about politics, but also our country,
0:20.0	Britain, as journeys often do.
0:21.7	Yeah, and, you know, I look back on my trip to Shanghai, which I took just a couple of
0:26.0	weeks after becoming Chancellor on my way to a G20. That was a real eye-opener about how
0:31.4	international diplomacy is carried out. And our first big trip in government in 1997 was for
0:36.7	the G8 summit in Denver, and we traveled via New York.
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