HOT TAKE: Is this an election winning budget?
Political Currency
Persephonica
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Is this the budget that turns the Tories’ fortunes?
Ed and George have been poised for this day for weeks: budget day! They give their immediate reaction to Jeremy Hunt’s (final?) spending plans, consider whether it meets the tests they set out on last week's episode, and they answer your questions.
This episode was originally broadcast LIVE on YouTube. Make sure you’re following us on social media @polcurrency so you don’t miss the next one.
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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. |
| 1:22.1 | Welcome to our political currency budget hot take. We're live on YouTube. |
| 1:23.7 | It's the first time we've ever done a live podcast recording |
| 1:27.6 | and also a hot take on our podcast feed |
| 1:30.7 | and it's all for a very special reason budget day. |
| 1:34.0 | Yes, very exciting to be doing this with you. |
| 1:37.0 | Normally after the budget would be shouting at each other |
| 1:39.0 | in the House of Commons or in some TV studio, |
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