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🗓️ 30 September 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Ed Balls and George Osborne open up this week on their most ardent, contrarian views. Is reincarnation real? Political reincarnation, perhaps. George shares how his thoughts have moved with the times and how he has reached some fresh conclusions on cannabis – conclusions with which, it turns out, Ed completely disagrees.
And, they field questions straight from the Labour party conference. Tips for the new Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones? Ed and George are happy to oblige. And what do they make of the demands for food security and environmental improvements amid rumours about cuts to the agricultural budget?
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0:00.0 | This episode of political currency is brought to you by EDF Britain's biggest generator of zero carbon electricity. |
0:07.0 | George we might have been in the red and blue teams back in our parliamentary days, but everyone these days is trying to be green, regardless of political |
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0:50.5 | visit EDF Energy.com. EDF Change is in our place. and about you but I've definitely noticed a change in my eyesight over the last few years. |
1:04.3 | Every time I go to the optician it's different. |
1:06.0 | Yeah, well I've certainly noticed that too and I haven't always agreed with your political vision |
1:10.1 | but I think finally we are seeing eye to eye on a few things. |
1:13.0 | I know the weird thing I have is that at six in the morning and Good Morning Britain |
1:17.4 | I have to be able to read with one eye because my left eye is my like reading eye |
1:22.1 | and it's quite hard at that time of day. |
1:24.0 | And then when I look up at the autocque, it's quite a challenge, |
1:27.0 | but in general, changing eyesight, it's totally normal, it's very natural, |
1:31.0 | and the key thing you've just got to do is make sure you get an eye |
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