EMQs: Celebs go politicking
Political Currency
Persephonica
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Could we see celebrities swapping the silver screen, football pitch or concert stage for the hallowed halls of Westminster? Ed Balls and George Osborne recall stars who have previously made the switch – does anybody ever really pull it off?
And, our hosts have got Paris 2024 fever as they look back on their favourite Olympic moments from London 2012. As athletes prepare to compete on the world stage, what are the best lessons or policies the UK has learnt from overseas?
Plus, will inflation go down? And how should we pick our party leaders?
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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. |
| 1:12.2 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer. |
| 1:14.3 | Getting a lesson from the Shadow Chancellor and how to balance the books is like getting a |
| 1:18.1 | lesson from Dracula and how to look after a blood bank. |
| 1:20.5 | Ed balls. As steady as she goes budget. |
| 1:25.8 | What kind of ship does he think he's on the titanic? |
| 1:28.4 | They're married Celeste. |
| 1:29.8 | Welcome to EMQs from political currency with Ed balls and George Osbourne. |
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