How do you solve a problem like Suella?
Political Currency
Persephonica
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🗓️ 9 November 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Suella Braverman has attacked the Met Police Chief’s decision to allow the pro-Palestine march this Saturday, putting Rishi Sunak in a tricky position. Ed asks George whether firing her is the only option.
Civil servants and ministers are currently scrambling around the Treasury to get everything ready for the upcoming Autumn Statement. All eyes will be on Jeremy Hunt: will he survive his big moment?
And Nadine Dorries’ book is out today, shedding light on the shadowy group she calls ‘the Movement’ operating at the heart of government. Is populism over in British politics?
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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. Well today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
| 0:16.0 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in |
| 0:26.0 | 2023. |
| 0:28.0 | B.com slash and not all. 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. This is political currency with Ed Bulls and George Osbourne. Osbrough. I had a very destabilizing moment this week. |
| 1:40.2 | I had a very destabilizing moment this week, 4 a.m. taxis through Central London on the way to Good |
| 1:46.5 | Morning Britain, looking at my briefs and it said we were discussing the launch of the Osbourne |
| 1:51.2 | podcast and I thought, but he's already doing a |
| 1:53.8 | podcast with me how come he's launching a second one what's going on this was |
| 1:57.3 | Ozzy Osbourne I can reassure you and and his wife Sharon and it's a you know when I was at school he was a big rock star and everyone |
| 2:05.3 | used to tease me calling me Ozzy Osbourne and then thankfully he disappeared |
| 2:08.7 | into obscurity I thought I'd never hear from him again he came back with at home with the Osbournes and now with the |
| 2:14.7 | podcast. But you know the great thing about podcasts you can listen to both the |
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