How (not) to take down a prime minister
Political Currency
Persephonica
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Has Rishi Sunak survived his first attempted coup? It might look like Simon Clarke’s amounted to nothing but Ed and George think it might be too soon to tell whether he’s failed yet. They have plenty of insights into plots past, and the many ways they can fizzle, burn, or downright engulf a prime minister.
Elsewhere in politics, the UK tax burden has been drifting up to a rate not seen since the 1960s. Can any chancellor - current or future - do anything about it?
And in Europe, a beleaguered German coalition faces economic problems of their own, plus the looming rise of the far-right. Is the most stable country in Europe headed towards ‘Dexit’?
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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. |
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| 1:09.6 | Visit gsk.com to learn more. This is political currency with Ed Bulls and George Osbourne. Osbrough. Another week, I believe, |
| 1:39.6 | another week, another George Osbourn |
| 1:42.4 | globe trotting week, I. Well I was at a funeral in |
| 1:46.0 | Berlin that's an old Michael Kane movie by the way but it was quite an amazing thing |
| 1:50.7 | it was a state funeral for Wolfgang Schoybler who had been finance |
| 1:54.3 | minister when I was Chancellor and I think you would have rather enjoyed it if you can say you |
| 1:59.6 | enjoy a funeral but he was a great man he lived to a good age and it was a sort of celebration of his life. |
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