Is Labour's honeymoon already over?
Political Currency
Persephonica
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🗓️ 27 June 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
The final week of election campaigning is here! Keir Starmer hasn't even measured up for curtains in Downing Street yet, but the attention is already turning to the headaches he will face in government. After a wobbly final debate performance against Rishi Sunak, Ed Balls wonders if the Labour leader can ever go for the jugular when it counts.
Then there's the markets. Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves might have high hopes for their policies, but where will the money come from? George Osborne thinks Labour's honeymoon might be over before it's begun.
And while it looks like Starmer has got Labour's act together, there's trouble brewing on the left of the party. Sir Keir's biographer, Tom Baldwin, reveals the real reason that Starmer served in Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet.
Apologies for George's F Bomb in the first few minutes!
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Producer: Rosie Stopher
Technical Producer: Will Gibson Smith
Executive Producers: Dino Sofos and Ellie Clifford
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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 Osbrough. |
| 1:54.7 | So we're back and recording remotely this Thursday morning because George has got a drive to the West country today and I presume down to Glastonbury is that the plan you live close? Are you ready for a bit of weekend raving? No, I'm actually going to help my son pack up at university and driver's stuff back to London, |
| 2:01.5 | but this is a weekend definitely to avoid going to my |
| 2:06.2 | place in Somerset if you're not going to Glastonbury because roads will be |
| 2:10.4 | completely packed and this year I'm giving the festival a big miss. |
| 2:16.2 | What's your favorite? I mean have you been before? |
| 2:18.0 | I went a couple years ago for the first time and I saw Billy Eilish and I saw Paul McCartney who brought on Bruce Springsteen as his special |
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