Inside Starmer’s No. 10
Political Currency
Persephonica
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
A new dawn, a new day, and a new government. Not quite Blair ‘97, Ed Balls and George give us the inside track on exactly how things are playing out inside No. 10 Downing Street right now. From cabinet appointments to civil servants, this is the guide you need.
But Keir Starmer’s landslide is just one half of the story today - the Tory and SNP downfall and the rise of Reform tell their own tales. Ed and George share their most standout moments of the past 24 hours and give their takes on how this will play out for the major parties as they (try to) move forward.
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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. |
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| 1:09.6 | Visit gsk.com to learn more. This is political currency with Ed Bulls and George Osbourn. So it's Friday afternoon, the day after polling day, 330. |
| 1:40.0 | Kistama is in Downing Street, he's appointing his cabinet as we speak. |
| 1:48.6 | And we are, I didn't know about you George, exhausted. |
| 1:51.3 | I mean we were up all night and then you were then on Good Morning |
| 1:54.8 | Britain with me after the I TV marathon. Did you get any sleep at all? I got a couple of |
| 2:00.4 | hours but you know I love days like this I mean I think you're a political |
| 2:03.8 | junkie you have to be excited by the helicopter hovering over Buckingham Palace |
| 2:09.0 | the outgoing prime minister it sort of to me I mean it does of course matter who those people are, we're going to come on and talk about that. But the whole occasion and the kind of transfer of power and democracy and action. You know, today is a day I always really enjoy and I'm kind of always trying to catch the key moments as the cars arrive and the, you know, now as we're doing doing this podcast people are walking up and down |
| 2:33.9 | down the street having getting their cabinet appointments including a vet we |
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