EMQs: Is a two-state solution still possible?
Political Currency
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🗓️ 4 August 2025
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Summary
The future of a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine comes into question this week, as Ed Balls and George Osborne respond to a listener asking whether Israeli public opinion has shifted irreversibly after the October 7th attacks. Is peace still possible, or has that hope died with the victims?
Another listener shares a devastating story about her mother’s death during the junior doctors' strikes, raising serious questions about end-of-life care and what, if anything, Wes Streeting can do to bring doctors back to work. Is palliative care in this country just a postcode lottery?
Plus - a challenge from Emily Thornberry on who kept ministers in check when Ed and George were in power, why successive governments might have gambled away billions in debt costs, and political flights that changed careers and reshaped governments.
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| 0:24.7 | For the rest of time. |
| 0:25.1 | Yes. |
| 0:25.8 | Okay, good. |
| 0:33.3 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer. |
| 0:40.3 | Getting a lesson from the Shadow Chancellor in how to balance the books is like getting a lesson from Dracula and how to look after a blood back. Ed Balls. |
| 0:41.3 | Steady as she goes budget. |
| 0:44.3 | What kind of ship does he think he's on, the Titanic? |
| 0:47.3 | Themery, Celeste. |
| 0:48.3 | Welcome to EMQs from Political Currency with Ed Balls and George Oswald. |
| 1:04.9 | Hello and welcome to EMQ's ex-minister's questions and this is the last time that you and I are going to be doing a live EMQ for a couple of weeks. We are on holiday in August, |
| 1:09.6 | but we've got some brilliant EMQs all ready to go. |
| 1:12.9 | Yeah, that's right, haven't we? We've, you know, we do try and answer all the good questions that we get sent. |
| 1:19.1 | And we don't always manage to do them in the week. And sometimes we tend to choose the more kind of |
| 1:23.3 | contemporary questions, but some are timeless. And then we bring them out for our summer episodes. |
| 1:29.4 | And I hope you're going to enjoy that. And also, you'll hear we've got some special guests |
| 1:33.7 | coming on for our main podcast as well. Indeed, we're having us, one of the special guests |
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