EMQs: Private school fees and public sackings
Political Currency
Persephonica
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Ed Balls and George Osborne answer more of your Ex-Minister’s Questions. Speaking of ex-ministers, Nick Boles, wants to know if there’s still an opportunity for anyone except Trump and Biden in the race for POTUS...
And what about Labour’s proposed VAT on private school fees - will it cause a state school influx? Is the left a bit ‘male’ as George alleges? Ed isn’t convinced. Plus, they both revisit their experience of very publicly losing their jobs.
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to roll out EV charging hubs in the UK and we're keeping oil and gas |
| 0:06.0 | flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all that's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:11.8 | While today we're mostly in oil and gas. We increased the proportion |
| 0:15.8 | of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses |
| 0:20.6 | from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023. |
| 0:25.8 | BP.com slash and not all. |
| 0:28.8 | This episode is brought to you by G.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. |
| 1:05.6 | Unites science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. |
| 1:09.6 | Visit gsk.com to learn more. |
| 1:12.1 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer. |
| 1:14.3 | Getting a lesson from the Shadow Chancellor and how to balance the books, it's like |
| 1:17.9 | getting a lesson from Dracula and how to look after a bluff back. |
| 1:20.5 | It 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. |
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