Inside No 10: David Cameron - The First Six Months (Part 1: Prime Minister at last)

Political Currency

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Business, Economy, George Osborne, Westminster, Politics, News, Money, Ed Balls

4 • 855 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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What’s it really like to step through the black door of No 10 for the first time as Prime Minister? Ed Balls and George Osborne ask David Cameron about his “out-of-body” experience on the way to the palace, plus what it’s like organising a staff team who have just had to say goodbye to a government. They discuss how to handle the top job when life starts relentlessly throwing events at you, the surprising tasks - like letters of last resort - that suddenly become your responsibility, and whether a ruthless streak is the only way to succeed.

As Keir Starmer marks six months as Prime Minister, Political Currency is stepping back into 2010, when another former leader of the opposition took up the premiership. Across three episodes, Ed Balls and George Osborne are joined by David Cameron - from the moment he arrived at Downing Street, to dealing with a hostage crisis; taking on his first PMQs to the emotional loss of his father. This is Cameron as you’ve never heard him before - in conversation with both a former ally and adversary as they revisit the political moments that shaped a new government and a new leader.

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1:20.0	You know, This is political currency with Ed Balls and me, George Osborne, and you're listening to Inside Number 10, David Cameron, the first six months.
1:51.4	Thank you. you're listening to Inside Number 10, David Cameron, the first six months. Welcome to another very special series of Inside the Room with Ed Balls and George Osborne.
1:56.6	Yeah, we're excited to be back with another Inside the Room where we invite some of the biggest characters in British politics in recent years to take us behind the scenes of the moments that have really mattered in our recent history.
2:07.9	And today we're going to do something different.
2:10.0	We're going to take a look at what it's like to be a new prime minister because, of course, Britain has got itself a new prime minister this year, who's now nearly six months into the job?
2:18.6	So we thought, who do we know
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