Is Rachel Reeves risking her reset moment?
Political Currency
Persephonica
4 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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They may have both been leading Brexiteers but Dominic Cummings and Nigel Farage were once fierce rivals, vying to be the top campaign of the referendum. As recently as last year Cummings accused Farage of ‘surrounding himself with useless characters’ – so why are we now hearing of a secret meeting between the two before Christmas? Ed Balls and George Osborne pick apart the significance of this rendezvous at a time when Reform are contending with a senior bust up, as well as an imminent by-election in Runcorn where polling has them out in front.
In a week where Diane Abbott and Andy Burnham backed Ed’s criticisms of the government’s welfare reform, Liz Kendall has been in the Commons to announce further detail of Labour’s plan. And they reflect on what options Chancellor Rachel Reeves will have in her Spring Statement (or mini-budget) next week. Can she create a reset moment?
Plus, in London this week was the new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. With rumours swirling about an imminent Canadian election, George and Ed debate the merits of calling a vote early into your premiership, reminiscing about the examples of Gordon Brown’s ‘the election that never was’ and Theresa May’s disastrous loss of a majority in 2017.
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