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Political Currency

Keir Starmer’s popularity problem

Political Currency

Persephonica

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

4.11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

It’s not just Rishi Sunak’s approval rating which has taken a battering. Keir Starmer has his own popularity problem. Why?


The so-called ‘five families’ of the Tory party threaten to “go to the mattresses” over the Rwanda bill, but end up bottling it. Is Mark Francois really the next Don Corleone? 


Ukraine’s President Zelensky has embarked on a world tour, pleading for more money for the Ukraine war. Is it time to rethink their strategy? 


And why London’s time as the great financial centre of the world might be over.


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Producers: Rachel Balmer and Rosie Stopher

Production Manager: Flick Heath

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,

0:06.1

and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain.

0:13.0

While today we're mostly in oil and gas

0:15.0

we increased the proportion of our global annual investment

0:18.0

that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses

0:21.0

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.

1:05.8

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 Ed Bulls and George. It kind of looks like you're in the

1:38.0

so it's good to be back.

1:39.0

We are remote this week from your backdrop George.

1:42.0

It kind of looks like you're in the

1:43.8

jungle I mean it's kind of quite a bit foliage behind you there I assume you're not

1:47.8

doing a Nigel Farage you're not in Australia are you? I have not reached that point in my low point in my career.

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