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Political Currency

Is Rishi Sunak's election gamble paying off?

Political Currency

Persephonica

Politics, News, Economy, Westminster, Business, George Osborne, Ed Balls, Money

4.11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

After a faltering start in the rain, Rishi Sunak’s campaign seems to be gaining momentum. Is it enough to prove he was right to gamble on a snap election? 


While it might not all be plain sailing for the Conservatives, things have certainly been looking up as trouble brews in the Labour Party. Ed Balls thinks Keir Starmer's handling of Diane’s Abbott’s candidacy has been a “terrible mess”. Could it have real ramifications for his hopes at the polls? 


But elsewhere George Osborne thinks a nightmare could be brewing for the Tories in the form of Nigel Farage. Could the so-called “honorary president” of Reform UK be looking for a Conservative seat? 


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Producer: Rosie Stopher and Ned Miles

Production support: Miriam Hall

Technical Producer: Oliver Geraghty 

Executive Producers: Dino Sofos and Ellie Clifford


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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.

0:35.0

We're lucky to live in a time when many of us can access medicine when we become ill,

0:38.5

but even better than recovering from being unwell is not getting ill in the first place.

0:43.2

Yes, G.S.K believes that prevention is the best medicine and that's why they've built one of the

0:48.2

broadest vaccine portfolios in the world.

0:50.6

G.S.K. say that prevention to them means pioneering new medicines to reduce HIV transmission

0:56.2

or stopping chronic conditions from progressing to more serious complications.

1:00.4

That's because preventing disease is the best possible outcome for all of us and that's why G.S.K.

1:05.6

Unites science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

1:09.6

Visit gsk.com to learn more. This is political currency with Edballs and George Osborne. currency. We are back in Shoreditch, almost in Diane Abbott country. She is the

1:46.0

neighbouring MP. Ed you're here but you must be home alone a bit now because of

1:51.6

course Yvette is out there campaigning.

1:53.4

She's not an MP anymore. Parliament's been dissolved this morning.

1:57.2

She's obviously the candidate in Castleford and presumably is Shadow Home Secretary out and about around the country leaving you on your own with

2:04.9

Netflix. I'm definitely home alone and had a very quiet week we were supposed to go

2:09.9

on holiday to the Lake District for three days and unlike the government minister Steve Baker who

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