Inside The Room: The Brexit Plots (Part 1)
Political Currency
Persephonica
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Brexit was the issue that splintered British politics: Friendships were broken, political parties split, and a nation polarised by the EU referendum. We all know what the outcome was, but in this special miniseries, Ed Balls and George Osborne are joined by Michael Gove - the ultimate Leave campaign insider - to discover what really went on behind the scenes of the biggest political shakeup of the 21st century.
In this first part of three, Ed, George and Michael take us back to the beginning of the Brexit campaigns and ‘inside the room’ as a formerly watertight cabinet began to split in favour of Leave or Remain.
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like designing two hydrogen plants, |
| 0:06.2 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:13.0 | While today we're mostly in oil and gas we increased the proportion of our |
| 0:16.8 | global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other |
| 0:19.8 | transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023. |
| 0:26.4 | BP.com slash and not all. |
| 0:29.1 | This episode is brought to you by G.S.K. |
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| 1:09.6 | Visit gsk.com to learn more. So welcome to this special episode of political currency with Ed balls and George Osborne. This is |
| 1:34.4 | inside the room the Brexit plots. Yeah we're excited to be back for this one. This is one of our |
| 1:39.1 | deep dives into British political history and it's a bit traumatic for me but I think we're |
| 1:46.8 | going to enjoy it because we are going to touch one of those vital moments in |
| 1:51.3 | recent British history which is the period around the referendum. |
| 1:55.2 | That's right last time we were joined by Danny Alexander as we examined the five days |
| 1:59.5 | in May 2010 that led to the formation of the coalition. This time we're going to go into the |
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