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Politics Unpacked

Is Britain In A Sickness Crisis?

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

Politics, News & Politics, News

4.11.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Hugo Rifkind is back to unpack the politics of the day, and all the other news, with the brightest minds from the Times and the Sunday Times.


Today he's joined by James Marriott and Libby Purves to discuss why so many people are going straight from university to long-term sickness, whether ID cards could tackle illegal immigration, and 'Judge Libby' delivers her verdict on some of the ethical dilemmas of the day.


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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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Terms apply. Hello this is Hugo Rifkind, isn't it? And now we're going to be unpacking the politics of the day and the stuff that's even more important than politics too.

1:15.4

Joining me are two of the finest minds from the Times and the Sunday Times. I'm drawn by Libby Purvis. Hello Libby.

1:20.2

Hello. What a pleasure to have you in the studio and James.

1:23.0

Hello James.

1:24.0

Good morning.

1:25.0

It's a pleasure to have you in the studio too.

1:26.0

I want you to feel left out.

1:28.0

Yeah, no, it's very pleasurable for everyone.

1:29.0

Not as big a pleasure as having me obviously.

1:31.0

I would say it's an exactly equal pleasure

1:33.2

having both of you. Starting in a diplomatic foot. Completely

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